NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Dress in Delhi

5 Tree for a partridge, in a Christmas song

9 Pale

14 Used Facebook Messenger, for short 15 Prefix with -vore

16 Major purveyor of mattresses

17 “Everything ___ go!” 18 Big corporate news 20 Word repeated before “Me” in a Beatles hit 22 Worrier’s words 23 Canned

24 Tribal unit

25 Yours, to Yves

28 Visitors from another planet, in brief

29 It helps make you you 31 L.L. Bean competitor 33 “That’s all ___ got”

34 Left unexpectedly, in slang

36 Titled

38 Holiday purchase … or a hint to the circled letters

41 Deceive

42 Slangy frat house

request

43 Number of lanterns “if by land”

44 Big water filtration brand

46 Australian critter 47 Little troublemaker 50 007

52 Fill to capacity

54 Award for which 8-Down, surprisingly, has never been nominated

56 Like a small room with a roaring fire

58 Stick (to) 59 1956 Mideast imbroglio 62 Redding who sang “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay”

63 One using Monster. com, maybe

64 Cozy spot 65 Sunset direction 66 Like some binary questions

67 Horned African beasts 68 Grp. founded to resist Communism

DOWN

1 Easy as pie

2 It works like a charm! 3 Puts back to zero, say 4 Aid for returning a lost pet

5 Get ready for the camera

6 CPR expert

7 Wise as ___

8 “Pretty Woman” costar

9 Part of P.D.A.: Abbr. 10 Tone of some old photos

11 Occasion for a locker room pep talk

12 One of the Manning brothers

13 Its slogan is “All the News That’s Fit to Print”: Abbr.

19 “Citizen ___”

21 Pepsi or Sprite, quaintly

24 Marking, as a gauge 26 On top of

27 Iraq War danger, for short

30 It may be in the autumn air

32 Feeling unhappy or angry

34 Cricket implement 35 New Mexico-tomissouri dir.

37 Boorish sort

38 Certain drunkard

39 Joins again, as a race 40 Expert

41 Easy ball to smash

45 Red state, once, for short

47 Component of an Arnold Palmer

48 ___ College

(school in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) 49 Magician’s cry

51 “Dirty” number 53 1980s-’90s heavyweight champ Mike 55 Demonstrated

57 Height: Prefix

58 Inquires

59 Not comfortable with the limelight 60 One-eighty

61 Debtor’s note