The New York Times

No. 0707

ACROSS

1 Dress in Delhi 5 Tree for a partridge, in a Christmas song 9 Pale

14 Used Facebook Messenger, for short

15 Prefix with -vore 16 Major purveyor of mattresses 17 “Everything ___ go!”

18 Big corporate news 20 Word repeated before “Me” in a Beatles hit 22 Worrier’s words 23 Canned

24 Tribal unit 25 Yours, to Yves 28 Visitors from another planet, in brief

29 It helps make you you

31 L.L. Bean competitor 33 “That’s all ___ got” 34 Left unexpectedly, in slang 36 Titled 38 Holiday purchase … or a hint to the circled letters 41 Deceive 42 Slangy frat house request

43 Number of lanterns “if by land”

44 Big water filtration brand 46 Australian critter 47 Little troublemaker 50 007

52 Fill to capacity 54 Award for which 8-Down, surprisingly, has never been nominated 56 Like a small room with a roaring fire 58 Stick (to)

59 1956 Mideast imbroglio 62 Redding who sang “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” 63 One using Monster. com, maybe 64 Cozy spot 65 Sunset direction 66 Like some binary questions 67 Horned African beasts

68 Grp. founded to resist Communism

DOWN

1 Easy as pie 2 It works like a charm!

3 Puts back to zero, say

4 Aid for returning a lost pet

5 Get ready for the camera

6 CPR expert 7 Wise as ___ 8 “Pretty Woman” co-star

9 Part of P.D.A.: Abbr. 10 Tone of some old photos 11 Occasion for a locker room pep talk

12 One of the Manning brothers 13 Its slogan is “All the News That’s Fit to Print”: Abbr. 19 “Citizen ___” 21 Pepsi or Sprite, quaintly

24 Marking, as a gauge

26 On top of

27 Iraq War danger, for short

30 It may be in the autumn air 32 Feeling unhappy or angry 34 Cricket implement 35 New Mexico-toMissouri dir. 37 Boorish sort 38 Certain drunkard 39 Joins again, as a race

40 Expert

41 Easy ball to smash

45 Red state, once, for short

47 Component of an Arnold Palmer

48 ___ College (school in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) 49 Magician’s cry 51 “Dirty” number 53 1980s-’90s heavyweight champ Mike 55 Demonstrated 57 Height: Prefix 58 Inquires

59 Not comfortable with the limelight 60 One-eighty 61 Debtor’s note