The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Podcasters’ needs

5 Meaty pasta sauce

9 “Hey, by the way

…”

14 Apple with

multiple cores

15 Eurasian river

16 Abstain from

17 *Job for a coxswain with rowdy rowers?

20 What’s tolerated

by every body?

21 Natural hairstyles

22 Poorly

23 *Review for a soso bakery?

26 2007 Michael Moore documentary about health care

28 “You’ve got ___

nerve!”

29 Melody

30 It’s often in stock

34 Chose a course

37 Dorothy Parker

quality

38 *Person who assigns the order of opening presents?

40 “Yes,” in Japanese

41 Check box of last

resort

43 Norse protector of

humankind

44 Complain

querulously

45 Kyrgyzstan

mountain range 47 Extremist sects

49 *Completes a superhero transformation?

54 And others too numerous to mention

55 Nary a soul

56 Island nation whose currency is the tala

60 Preschool teacher’s mantra … or a hint to the answers to the starred clues

63 Have a nibble of

64 Brazilian berry

65 She, on the Seine

66 Expression that might accompany a mustache twirl

67 Word repeated in a 1956 Doris Day single

68 Brighter times

DOWN

1 It’s catching

2 “Not sure yet”

3 Something to

make or break

4 “Magic that works,” per Vonnegut

5 Runner on the

ground?

6 Like an excited

crowd

7 Social blunder

8 Marine leader?

9 Small ice cream

order

10 Ad _ _ _

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11 “Never mind what

I just said!”

12 One of the

Astaires

13 Caterwauls

18 Cozy corner

19 Romantic attraction, slangily, with “the”

24 Its name means “waterless place” in Mongolian

25 Hype (up)

26 Something to

follow, in cards

27 “If so, then …”

29 Number of graduates in the first class at West Point (1802)

31 Poetic frequency

32 Utmost

33 Writer Umberto

35 Buds go in them

36 Dance floor

flourish

38 Less sharp, as

footage

39 Animal whose brain has the most gray matter of any mammal

42 They’re raised in

Chi-town

44 Found innocent

46 Part of, as a plot

48 “_ _ _-daisy!”

49 Tales of daring

50 Frome of fiction

51 Classical coverups

52 Chilling

53 Labor activist

Chavez

57 “___ 18” (novel by

Leon Uris)

58 Exclusively

59 Wrinkles in time?

61 Its ways are

numbered: Abbr.

62 O.S.S. successor