The New York Times Crossword Puzzle

KEVIN CURRY AND DANIEL BODILY

ACROSS

1 N.L. East team for which Tom Seaver pitched 5 “Down the ___!” (“Bottoms up!”) 10 Wild guess

14 Pop band with a

palindromic name 15 Pouch of fluid in an E.R.

16 Site with “Place bid” buttons 17 When repeated,

slogan of 1-Down 18 “I ___ what I said” 19 Tirade 20 Torus-shaped

treat

22 Actor whose name is appropriate to appear in this puzzle

23 ~

24 Michelle ___, FIFA Female Player of the Century 25 Not just some 26 Treads on Keds 27 Plopped down 28 “Her name is ___ and she dances on the sand” (Duran Duran lyric)

29 Common airport

greeting 30 Attempt to cool,

in a way 31 Conditions 32 Aruba, Bonaire or

Curaçao 34 Astronaut

Jemison 35 Nonspecialist 38 Mars … or a marble

40 Old man’s old man 42 “Little” Wonder 44 Goes the distance 46 Mandated 47 Mama’s mama 48 ___ Apollo, Grammynominated singer 49 One of five in a

Shakespeare play 52 Like items unveiled in a tech show, colloquially 54 Boxer who received a Liberty Medal for being a “champion of freedom” 57 Foreboding

feeling

59 Wee one 60 List in an

etiquette book 62 Fitness program originally called “Rumbacize” 63 Market launch, for

short

64 Come clean 65 Cast out

66 First music artist to have a video with a billion YouTube views 67 Impoverished

DOWN

1 Miata maker 2 Kindle item 3 *Chophouse

choice

4 One required by a 1629 law to wear two swords

5 “To Know ___ Is to Love ___” (1958 #1 song)

6 Mass recitation 7 *Skier’s support 8 Surefire

9 Driver’s license

fig.

10 “No joke!” 11 *Miniature mitt 12 “Storage Wars”

network 13 Memory units 21 *Article of

summer footwear 23 *Launcher sometimes used during halftime at a sports event 30 Singer Bareilles 33 Canal written about by Twain and Melville 34 Studio with an

iconic lion 36 Home of Acadia

National Park 37 “I’m at your

disposal”

39 One of the B’s in

B&B

41 Chess pieces 43 Make a typo,

say

45 Bit of advice from

a C.P.A. 46 Slobbery tennis

ball, e.g. 49 Woodworking

tool

50 Main point 51 Office sub

53 With the giant letter formed by the black squares immediately above this answer, what the answers to the starred clues all literally have 54 Name shared by two wives of Henry VIII 55 Noisy

56 Words preceding “with my little eye”

58 $5 bill, slangily 61 Have bills due