N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 ___ pit (area at a punk concert) 5 Cheese named after a town in Holland 9 Phenom 13 Butterlike spreads 15 Adjust the strings of, as a guitar 16 Shankar who mentored George Harrison 17 Attack an endeavor vigorously 20 Allen whose #3 was retired by the 76ers 21 Papal name chosen 12 times 22 What a priest may absolve 23 Stepped (on) 25 Heroine of Purim 29 Pilgrim to Mecca 31 Locale for Christmas lights 33 Ginger ___ (soft drink) 34 Prevailed 35 ___ mater 36 The “O” in S.R.O. 37 Get hitched 40 Lacking adornment 41 Good things to have about you in an emergency 42 Building designer I. M. ___ 43 Terrier’s expression of terror 44 Name, as sources 45 Entertainers Carvey and Delany 48 M’s and N’s, in pronunciation 50 Circa-W.W. I art movement 53 Pre-W.W. II public works project, for short 54 Moistens 56 Eighty-sixed 58 Lose one’s mind 62 Pakistani language 63 Expel from power 64 Jolt of power 65 Holidaytime song 66 Micro : millionth :: ___ : trillionth 67 Viewed

Down

1 In fashion 2 Actress Munn of “Deliver Us From Evil” 3 Title characters in Disney’s first full-length feature 4 Gardener in the weeds 5 Prefix with centric 6 Word before north or process 7 “I need ___” (yawner’s words) 8 Pertaining to the time of castles and knights 9 Where to wear a watch 10 Part of a sarcastic laugh 11 Hosp. hookups 12 Teen’s facial blemish 14 The Vatican’s ___ Chapel 18 Neither’s partner 19 What to light on a stick of dynamite 24 X’d out 26 “Don’t give up now!” 27 Vogue rival 28 “The Bridge of San Luis ___” 30 Rib-tickler 32 Charges (up) 35 Score ___ (enjoy some success) 36 Draftworthy 37 “Gone With the Wind” plantation 38 Like some easy-open bottles 39 Subjects of some software pop-ups 40 Outlaw

44 is one 46 Exact retribution for 47 Make melancholy 49 Terrible 51 Supplement 52 Go pfft 55 Feng ___ (harmonizing philosophy) 57 PC brains 58 Rev, as an engine 59 Pizarro’s gold 60 Praiseful poem 61 Abort key