The New York Times Crossword

Answers below

ACROSS

1 Rafael on the tennis

court

6 Mineral easily split

into layers

10 Reached base feet-first 14 Michelle who wrote

“Becoming”

15 Gem found in the

Outback

16 Daly with a Tony for

“Gypsy”

17 Like the ocean and

most potato chips 18 Pianist Cliburn plays

basketball defense? 20 Building extension 21 Spoken

23 Garb

24 TV host Behar takes

mass transit? 26 Trash-loving grouch of

children’s TV

27 They bring tears to

chefs’ eyes

28 Young seal

30 “___ Pepper’s Lonely

Hearts Club Band” 31 Unstraighten, as a

wire

32 Illinois city on the

Illinois River

35 Actress Rogers flips

out?

39 “That’s enough!” 40 Kelly seen live in the

morning

43 Hair goop

46 Martial arts level 47 Damsel 49 Battle site where Davy

Crockett died

51 Singer Dylan has fun

in the snow? 53 Change somewhat 55 “It’s a shame &”

56 Bit of legislation 57 Businessman Gates gets out of the poker game?

59 Zola who wrote “J’Accuse &!”

61 “So that’s how it is” 62 Fury

63 Printer powder

64 “___ of the d’Urbervilles”

65 Perfect world 66 Watermelon throwaways

DOWN

1 Rhinoplasty, informally

2 Mollusk with an iridescent inner shell 3 Wasting time 4 Quantity: Abbr. 5 Stores for future use 6 Date night staple 7 Apple tablets

8 Soup container

9 Bit of seaweed 10 Game recap figures 11 Words to songs 12 Dressed like RuPaul 13 Gobi or Mojave 19 Perfect world 22 Much-anticipated parts of Super Bowl broadcasts

25 “The Kiss” sculptor 28 Get in place for the

camera

29 Large coffee vessel 32 Lowly laborer

33 Muff one

34 Month of many unhappy returns?

36 Fall asleep while

watching TV, perhaps 37 “Today” show rival,

for short

38 Spot for a football

coach

41 Went by bicycle

42 a), b), c) and d), on a

multiple-choice test 43 Stratagem

44 Fictional 6-year-old at

the Plaza Hotel 45 Soup-serving utensils 47 Entrepreneur’s deg. 48 Listings in a calculation of one’s net worth

50 “And ___ to go before

I sleep”: Robert Frost 51 Award earned by a

scout

52 Elizabeth of the

“Avengers” series 54 Time long gone

58 Boy in knickers, perhaps

60 Bartender on “The

Simpsons”