NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Powerful singer’s asset, informally

11 Prophet in the Book of Mormon 15 Gelato alternative

16 Like ___ of worms 17 Pioneer in heliocentric theory 18 Fishing floats

19 Baht : Thailand :: ___ : Laos

20 +, $ or @

21 Observed visiting 23 Imperial sticks, say

25 San Francisco’s ___ Tower 27 Dismal turnout

28 End of a letter 30 Backstage Broadway worker 32 Unmitigated disaster, in slang 35 Jeanne d’Arc, e.g.: Abbr. 38 Raptors’ home: Abbr. 39 Shoebox spec 40 Second-in-command at a corp. 41 Leonardo da Vinci drawing featuring superimposed body positions

45 Very light

46 They roll in

50 Erie or Miami

51 D.C. tourist destination 54 Senate majority leader who succeeded Dole

55 The house of Versace? 57 Vanquish

59 Bucolic expanse

60 Having a scrap

61 John Nash’s field of mathematics

64 Narrow margin

65 A question of cosmology 66 Mime and puppetry, e.g. 67 Went door to door?

DOWN

1 Twisted types

2 Cannes star

3 CNN newsman Jake

4 Copa Mundial cry

5 You may visit a lot of them before Christmas

6 Kind of attack

7 Covent Garden architect Jones 8 Spreads out in a park?

9 Euro forerunner

10 Time in therapy, e.g.: Abbr. 11 Shia who’s not a Muslim 12 Cost-effective 13 Cayenne’s hotter cousin

14 Like much FM radio 22 Implore

24 Human appendage? 26 “Count ___” (calming advice) 29 They’re traded in the Chicago Board of Trade

31 Feel

33 Affect

34 Hector’s father

35 2015 Literature Nobelist Alexievich 36 Certain chemistry lab apparatus 37 Immanuel Kant, for one 42 Purchase incentives

43 In a 6-Down

44 It’s nothing

47 Bit of computer programming executed repeatedly 48 Perpetual, poetically

49 Didn’t take off 52 “Brigadoon” composer 53 Theorbos, e.g.

56 Ottoman chiefs

58 Soften

62 Cardinals’ home: Abbr.

63 “My God!,” as cried by Jesus