The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Tough-to-remove

stain

7 Cracked

10 Basketball brand 14 Big report

15 Severe test

17 Gets frosty

18 Concern for

the E.P.A.

19 Outdoor lighting

fixtures?

20 Drawings seen in France’s Rouffignac Cave 21 Grey Goose

competitor

23 Striplings

24 “Love in the Time of ___” (Gabriel García Márquez novel) 28 Shake

31 Actress Anderson 32 What putting one’s finger to one’s lips may mean

38 Indoor recess

39 Headline after a

market crash

40 “Walkabout”

director Nicolas 41 Pleasure-seeking 42 Cell tower

feature

44 ___ vivant

45 British title

holder

47 Parris Island grp. 51 Video game units 55 Stuffed garnishes 59 Code broken

by rats

61 Waistband sight … or what 20-, 39- and 55-Across each have?

62 What red

may mean

63 “You got it!” 64 Acquire via

blackmail 65 Otherwise called

66 Spreads, as straw

DOWN

1 Less than 1%, say

2 Order across the

border

3 Sarcastic

response

4 “Holy smokes!”

5 Salon stuff

6 Hype (up)

7 Sci-fi character nicknamed “Bones” 8 1968 self-titled

folk album

9 Drawing contest? 10 Like records that are easily broken? 11 President whose initials were also his dog’s name 12 Long, old yarn 13 Come to ___ 16 Nutritional label abbr. 20 Nemesis of the Clanton gang 22 Deity often depicted with blue skin 24 Santa ___ 25 Biker’s invitation 26 Dawn 27 One working for the lord 28 Patriarch

with 12 sons

29 ___ quarter

(refuse mercy) 30 Shellac, e.g.

33 What might make up for lost ground?

34 Also keeps in the

know, in a way 35 Corruption

36 Skull and Bones

collegian

37 “Cake Boss”

channel

43 One living in the

sticks, e.g.

46 Modern home of ancient Tripolitania 47 Dark

48 Cache

49 Made field calls? 50 Carries on through difficulty

51 Lucky strike?

52 Wide-screen

format

53 Magma conduit 54 “And so …”

56 Not assertive

57 Visitor to Rick’s

Café Américain 58 Figures in the 2016 film “Arrival,” for short

60 Works in

a salon