NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Reception cry 7 With 31-Across,

Cape May’s locale 15 Elbowed 16 Smitten 17 “Orlando” and

“Otello” 18 Put on a pedestal 19 Eight days after the nones, in ancient Rome 20 Wreck 21 Female cells 22 Modern prefix with

design 24 Still, poetically 25 Univ. bigwig 26 “The plot

thickens!” 29 Close down 31 See 7-Across 32 Navigator, e.g. 33 2015 Oscars host

___ Patrick Harris 35 Wee 37 Like 38 Members of an

island kingdom 40 Prepare for

planting, say 42 Set free 44 “___ sure you

know …” 45 “Thou ___ aloft full-dazzling!”: Whitman 46 Generic Guy of

“Dilbert” 47 ___ chi 48 Where some streams come from, with “the” 49 Family history, e.g. 51 Polling fig. 54 Opposite of debits:

Abbr. 56 New Deal corp. 57 Maul, in a way 58 Playbill listing 61 Film whose sequel is subtitled “The Sequel” 63 Separate the

seeds from 65 Hot spot 66 Food additive

banned in 1976 67 Completely

engaged (in) 68 Emphatic

confirmation

DOWN

1 “Feliz ___ Nuevo!” 2 Brazilian people 3 Had way too

much, briefly 4 What subjects and verbs must do 5 Like candles that might remind one of the beach 6 Scores by RBs

and WRs 7 Company with a

harrowing history? 8 Come next 9 Many prayers are

said in it 10 Many prayers end

with it 11 Agony 12 Event at which the work spelled out by the shaded letters was first exhibited in

America 13 “The Canterbury

Tales” pilgrim 14 Norse literary

works 23 Result of a leadoff

single 25 Slam 26 ___ result 27 Amazon Prime

competitor 28 Like the work spelled out by the shaded letters 30 Uproar 31 Sullied 34 JFK alternative 35 So-called “Giant Brain” unveiled in 1946 36 Long ago 39 Winter setting for

P.E.I. 41 Go down 43 Shade of green 49 Utterly 50 Like fine feathered

friends 51 Part of the earth’s

crust 52 Item that may be

portaged 53 Little nothing 55 New York

restaurateur of old 57 Wearing, with “in” 59 Thrill 60 General ___

chicken 62 Amount to be

divided up 63 Part of TNT 64 Water