The New York Times Crossword

Answers below

ACROSS

1 They may be switched while cycling

6 Shorthand pro

11 Crossword solver’s cry

14 Deity with 99 names

15 Raphael, Gabriel or Michael

17 Cradlin’ a Salinger protagonist?

19 Preserve, as ashes

20 Vodka brand, informally

21 “Footloose” star cookin’ a fresh batch of brownies?

26 “Need an ark? I Noah guy,” and others

27 Blond at the bar, say

28 Letters on a luxury handbag

29 Chips brand

31 Sentence & or something found in a sentence

33 Did so- so at school

34 The Great Emancipator sharin’ URLS on his blog?

40 Cover for illicit activity

41 “Right on!”

43 “I don’t want to hear

the gory details”

46 ___- C.I.O.

49 Strands in a cell

50 Four-time Grammy winner India.___

51 Bein’ in debt to a “Wedding Crashers” co- star?

54 Some burrowing mouselike rodents

56 One- point Scrabble draw

57 Massachusetts senator wagin’ conflict?

63 Houseplant that some think brings luck and prosperity

64 One in 1,000?

65 Beat it!

66 Bee teem?

67 Internet admin

DOWN

1 Cry of frustration

2 Chess rating system

3 ___ fours

4 Minute hands, essentially

5 Climb (up), as a pole

6 Related to religious rites

7 Sedative in a blowgun dart, informally

8 Old French coin

9 Org. for Ducks and Penguins

10 Bunglers

11 Get too old to qualify

12 “Over my dead body!”

13 Hugo-winning “Hothouse” author Brian

16 Particularly particular

18 Pencil remnants

21 Actress Dennings

22 Philosopher Zeno’s birthplace

23 Crow, but not magpie

24 “American ___”

25 “Moi? Never!”

30 Went on, as an errand

32 Gotham City supervillain in a cryogenic suit

33 Intl. standard used by many astrologers

35 Amount to

36 Our genus

37 Freshly

38 Roadside bombs, for short

39 One-billionth: Prefix

42 Solo in spaceflight?

43 “I need a hero!”

44 Computer language that sounds like a literary intro

45 Under the weather

46 “Ode to Joy,” for the European Union

47 Texter’s “I think”

48 New Hampshire state flowers

52 Bury

53 The “L” of (Samuel L. Jackson

55 Declares

58 As an aside, in (a text

59 The “E” of B.C.E.

60 Info in an apt. listing

61 Texter’s “I think”

62 Catch some Z’s