NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Head off 6 See 13-Across 10 Deviate from a course 13 Sprays, as a crowd in a 6-Across 14 Petrol amount 15 A pitcher should have a low one, in brief 16 1954 monster film setting 18 Busiest airport on the West Coast, informally 19 Franc replacement 20 Immense, in poetry 21 Friend in war 22 1948 John Wayne western 24 Frozen waffle brand 26 Drinker’s road offense, for short 27 It may have an arch or a lintel 30 What buoys do 33 Battery terminal 36 Course that you waltz through 37 It gives a hoot 38 Formidable

opponents 40 Nightfall, in poetry 41 ___ Ste. Marie 43 Baker who sang “Giving You the Best That I Got” 44 “___ not what your country …” 45 Brahma, in Hinduism 47 PC’S brain 49 The Bible, e.g. 50 City that’s home to the winner of the first two Super Bowls 55 Pod contents 57 Catcher’s position 59 Ontario tribe 60 Dartmouth or Brown 61 Some Winslow Homer art … or what five answers in this puzzle are? 63 Prefix with natal 64 Sambuca flavoring 65 Tighten, as laces 66 Wildebeest 67 Reasons for braces 68 Hearth waste

DOWN

1 Color of honey 2 Cherish 3 Virtual holiday greeting 4 3 minutes 43 seconds for running a mile, e.g. 5 “Ba-a-ad!” 6 Harshness 7 “Like ___ not …” 8 Start of a cry by Juliet 9 Start of the end of a countdown 10 It’s between Korea and China 11 Name on a map of Uzbekistan or Kazakhstan 12 Like some crayons 14 Swim meet assignment 17 James of the Met 21 Taj Mahal site 23 “Count me in!” 25 Loses it altogether 27 Arnaz of “I Love Lucy” 28 Affirmatives 29 Bronx Bomber 30 Pear variety 31 Man ___ (A.P.’S Horse of the Century) 32 Linda Ronstadt hit co-written by Roy Orbison 34 “ER” actor Epps 35 Room with few or no windows 39 “Blah, blah, blah …” 42 Neighbor of Thailand 46 ___ Baiul, 1994 Winter Olympics gold medalist 48 Fester and Remus 50 Take a stab 51 Hard to come by 52 Very thin soup 53 Eagle’s nest 54 Affirmatives 55 Radar sound 56 Deadlocked 58 Stick in a medicine cabinet 61 Joker 62 ___ pro nobis (pray for us: Lat.)