The New York Times Crossword

By Seth Weitberg

ACROSS

____ 2600 (bygone console)

6 Raised

10 Worker welfare

org.

14 Guitar accessories

15 _ _ _-de-camp

16 Close by

17 “This cardboard belt is a waist of paper,” for example?

19 Like the Gobi

20 Capacity

21 Noon, on some

clocks

22 Sharp increase

23 Year abroad

24 Good times doing

bench presses?

27 “Canvases” for crossword constructors

29 Bread for baba

ghanouj

30 Billy the Kid, for

one

32 Granola grain

33 Reusable shopping

bag

37 Why the pizza oven is so hard to clean?

41 Egyptian ruler from 51 to 30 B.C., familiarly

42 “Curious …”

43 “I want a turn!”

44 Auditioned, maybe

46 ___ poker

(bluffing game)

1

48 Desire in the

dessert aisle?

52 Stock advice, say

55 ___ Horan, Irish

musician

56 Summertime quaff

57 Hand, in Spanish

58 _ _ _-Seltzer

59 Start of some advice … or a phonetic hint to 17-, 24-, 37- and 48-Across

62 Overflow (with)

63 It has the makings

of a hero

64 Took a dive

65 Tax form figs.

66 Convention

freebies

67 One way to be in

love

DOWN

1 Capital of Ghana

2 Prey snatcher

3 Issue a mea culpa

4 Mechanical

repetition

5 “Sorta” suffix

6 White tees and

blue jeans, e.g.

7 Hit the ball out of

the park, say

8 End of an

academic address

9 Fox’s refuge

10 How hors d’oeuvres may be served

11 Typographical

embellishment

12 17-syllable verse

Edited by Will Shortz No. 1219

13 French forest in a

Shakespeare play

18 Ticked, as a box

22 Took a load off

24 Where tourists might take a picture of themselves seemingly holding up a tower

25 Iridescent gem

26 Singer Ora

28 Mollusks named

for their shape

30 Largest movie theater chain in the world

31 “Hilarious!,” in a

text

32 Shabby, maybe

34 Lasted longer than

35 Cinephile’s

channel

36 Scrape (out)

38 Shout with

laughter

39 Little whirlpool

40 Bedframe piece

45 Snakelike fish

46 “Black Panther” composer Göransson, who shares his first name with another famous composer

47 “OK, got it”

48 Nipping pests

49 Nettles

50 Like some wine

barrels

51 Boxer Ali

53 How many sardines are packed

54 Petulant

57 Whatsapp owner

59 They might be checked at the door

60 Not a lot

61 One that ewe can

count on?