NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Walk all over

6 Put back together

10 88 or 98

14 “It’s now or never” 16 Converge

17 Nailing a performance 18 Origination point of some drips

19 Sheet music abbr. 20 Having hit successfully, say 21 Weightlifter’s concern 22 Obliterates

24 Port whistler 25 Classic arcade game with a glass backboard that shatters

27 86 or 99

29 Still learning the ropes of

31 Large W.W. II area: Abbr. 32 Save 34 Agenda-topping issue 36 Momentarily

38 Started to work 41 Bratty girl on “Little House on the Prairie” 45 Qualifier in 46-Across 46 Messages with emojis 48 Size zero, say

49 Savory Indian appetizer 51 Marking for a very soft passage

53 Show great fondness 54 Abundance 55 Mothered or fathered 58 ___ pros. (lawsuit abbr.) 59 French filmdom

60 Rid of inefficient

extras

62 What makes

consumers blush? 63 Plays peacemaker 64 Pet sounds

65 They may be

soaked up

66 They’re favorites

DOWN

1 Moorish castle 2 Heavy rain

3 Wrongly assumed 4 Some patrons: Abbr. 5 Voice-activated

Amazon device

6 “The ponytail’s hipster cousin,” per GQ

7 Its honorees plan to become one

8 Org. for forensic

specialist Abby Sciuto 9 Class clown’s comeuppance 10 Competitor of Cartier 11 Means of travel for a V.I.P.

12 Get sidetracked 13 Part of a blended family 15 Soupçon

23 Crafty sort 26 Article of attire with strings 28 Convictions

30 W.W. II service member 33 Old-fashioned letter opener 35 Dogged it

37 It shares a key with a caret

38 What motivates people to get to first base during a game? 39 Survivor’s cry

40 “Let’s get real here …” 42 Strong and majestic 43 Half spoken, half sung 44 Naturally blind

47 Flings

50 Eponym of USA Track

& Field’s highest award 52 It may be poached 56 View from Catania 57 Photo ID issuers 61 Commander during John Brown’s capture in 1859