The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Rio dance

6 Not dull

11 Body-scanning

grp.

14 Corners

15 Places to hang

holiday lights

16 Poetic

contraction

17 Audibly appalled 18 Person who’s

all pretense

19 Give the O.K.

20 Vacillates,

as a plumber? 23 Caps Lock, e.g. 24 Dazzle

25 Recipient of a ticker-tape parade, maybe 26 Exhausted,

as a plumber? 31 Black ball

34 Choice for a

par 5 hole, often 35 Homer’s father 36 High-airfare

season, for short 37 Place across the back of a chair, perhaps

39 Loafing around 40 Lang. course

41 Whiskey drink 42 Comes up short,

say

43 Wasted, to a

plumber?

47 Athos, Porthos

and Aramis, e.g. 48 Type

49 Broadway’s

“Mamma ___!” 52 Anxiety, to a

plumber?

57 Rabid fan

58 Outlook function 59 Give the O.K.

60 “___ You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” 61 Major river starting in SE Switzerland

62 Actor Buddy of “The Beverly Hillbillies”

63 Part of r.p.m. 64 Furniture

store display 65 How sloppy

kissers kiss

DOWN

1 “Game of Thrones” family name

2 Squabble

3 Nasty person

4 Mrs. Truman

5 It’s used to pave

the way 6 The deadly sins,

e.g.

7 [LOL]

8 Makeup maker 9 Tear to pieces 10 Gung-ho

11 Booths are

set up in them 12 Have some trouble focusing

13 Part of MoMA 21 Letter carrier

at Hogwarts

22 Voluminous

ref. work

26 Sounds made during medical checkups

27 Espy or Emmy 28 ___ psychology 29 “Annabel Lee”

poet

30 Aids for football

kickers

31 Marked (out)

32 “Maybe ask

someone else” 33 One doing

sketch work?

37 Exclamation

from Homer

38 Lament

39 Atom in any salt 41 Steamship

workers

42 Used, although one can hardly tell

44 20th-century author famous for her journals 45 Some armory

contents

46 Sierra Nevada,

for one

49 In the ___ of 50 Contents of a presidential briefing

51 Having one’s wisdom teeth pulled, e.g.

53 Initialism whose third initial often isn’t true 54 Babe in the

woods

55 Actress

Lollobrigida

56 Brain part

57 Brief siesta