The New York Times Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

1 Quickly

microwave 4 Stock index founded in 1885, informally 10 Cooler in glasses 13 Afflictions 15 Elder Levy in

“Schitt’s Creek” 16 Islanders’ grp. 17 People who acknowledge when they’ve been verbally bested? 19 Berkeley,

familiarly 20 Paper opener 21 Two for a basket:

Abbr.

22 “Sweet!” 23 Ruins a shiny fabric, as a pet might? 27 Stratovolcano in

Sicily

28 Shot taker 30 Computer

scientist Turing 33 “Should that be

true …” 36 Determined to

do

37 Power, as an

engine 38 Embassy staffer … or a hint to 17-, 23-, 49- and 59-Across? 40 “S.N.L.” alum

Gasteyer 41 Colosseum

country 43 Lead-in to girl 44 Skating jump 45 Numb, as a foot 47 MCAT subj. 49 Bad advice from

grandpa? 54 Without 55 Desire 56 Spammer’s

medium 58 Parabola piece 59 Managed to stomach a cracker spread? 62 Undefined

ordinal 63 Feared fifthcentury ruler 64 Diez menos dos 65 Turn red, maybe 66 Summit attendee 67 Corral, e.g.

DOWN

1 Cylindrical pasta 2 ___ the way 3 Dog owned by a

talking mouse 4 Equipment not needed in miniature golf 5 Cabana

6 King Tut’s land 7 Profundity

8 “Be right with

you”

9 Director

Anderson 10 Payroll

deduction 11 Parent on a field

trip, often 12 Woman’s name that sounds like a letter of the alphabet

14 Vet

18 Run the show,

say

22 Maggie Smith,

for one

24 “I’ll do that right

away!” 25 International pact that ended in 2020 26 Blast with a

beam of photons 29 Fussy in the

extreme 30 Handel’s “La giustizia,” for one 31 Bacchanalian cry 32 Overwhelming

amount

34 Took a load off 35 Group of eight 38 “The ___ have

it!”

39 Suspend 42 Without

44 At the original

speed, in scores 46 Psychoactive drug from a cactus

48 “So true!” 50 Volkswagen

compact 51 Reversed

52 Org. co-founded by W. E. B. Du Bois

53 10% offering 54 Castle material 57 Revolutionary

Trotsky

59 Eight pts. 60 Fútbol cry 61 Game with the objective of winning all the cards