The New York Times Crossword Puzzle

KEVIN CHRISTIAN AND BRAD WILBER

ACROSS

1 Home of Busch Gardens

6 Birthstone for many Libras

10 React in astonishment

14 Sprinkle with holy water, say

15 Antiquated “not”

16 Igor Stravinsky’s “Fair lady, gracious gentlemen,” e.g.

17 With 26-Across, quote from 4-/60-Down

20 Inexperienced, as a recruit

21 Some tax shelters, for short

22 Leather processing professional

23 Pluto’s Egyptian counterpart

25 Razz

26 See 17-Across

29 Chanel perfume

30 Can’t live without

31 Fraternity letter

34 & 38 Star of

4-/60-Down

40 Loo

41 Hype

43 Keen on

44 Main character in

4-/60-Down

48 H.S. science class for ambitious students

51 Become too old to qualify

52 Sound of a fife

54 Winning the booby prize

55 ___ Tomé and Príncipe

58 Director of 4-/60-Down, which was released on 9/8/60

61 Advantageous mtge. deal

62 Jack of all trades, master of ___

63 Midwest air hub

64 ___-Z (classic Camaro)

65 Mimic

66 Lassoed

DOWN

1 Skier’s aid

2 Duchess of ___ (Goya subject)

3 Ask for Friskies, maybe

4 “Gangnam Style” performer

5 Pilgrimage destination in central Italy

6 Like macho pushups

7 Ardor

8 “Falsehood can hold out against much in this world, but not against ___”: Solzhenitsyn

9 Uber alternative

10 Somersaulting dive

11 Sports venue

12 Trigonometry’s law of ___

13 San Diego player

18 Rite with a mohel

19 Like movies that are more adult than PG-13, maybe

23 “Pick me! Pick me! I know!”

24 Part of the process

26 College in New Rochelle, N.Y.

27 1970s-’80s sketch comedy show

28 ___-haw

29 Berkeley school, informally

31 Fork point

32 Unwelcome picnic guests

33 Sponsor of many a Bob Hope show, in brief

35 Peter with eight Oscar nominations (but no wins)

36 “… ___ a lender be”

37 City and county of Arizona

39 Singer Eartha

42 Quotable bit on a movie poster

44 ___ acid (aqua fortis)

45 Like Felix Unger vis-à-vis Oscar Madison

46 Variety of pear

47 Stephen King or Ellery Queen

48 Space Invaders console

49 One propelling a raft, maybe

50 Superb, on Broadway

53 Novelist Ferber

55 “General Hospital,” e.g.

56 Field unit

57 Approved

59 Short flight

60 Comic Margaret