N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Adhering to old-fashioned modesty 5 Congeal, as blood 9 Gate closer 14 Green precious stone 15 Years and years and years 16 Honolulu hello 17 *Gamequickening timer in basketball 19 Arabian Peninsula nation 20 Charlotte ___ (rich dessert) 21 Lyndon Johnson and George W. Bush 22 Food unit counted by a dieter 25 Budgetary excess 26 Golf ball propperupper 27 Columbus campus, briefly 28 *Snowbirds’ destination 30 Cartoondom’s Olive ___ 31 Wealth 33 Tie, as figure skates 35 Clobber in the ring 36 Weirdo 37 Miss America accessory 40 President saying“No!” 43 Utter failure 45 Govt. of the Rebs 47 *Long vegetable with a yellow pod 49 Game of pursuit 50 Take part in 49-Across 51 Mel honored in Cooperstown 52 Ships’ direction controllers 54 Mischievous 56 Spunk 57 Small food fish 58 List of popular songs … or a hint to the ends of the answers to the starred clues 62 Hairlike projections on cells 63 Wagner’s “Liebestod,” e.g. 64 Something an arrested person tries to“make” 65 Playful river animal 66 Some“big” burgers 67 Reb’s foe

DOWN 1 Nighttime wear, familiarly 2 Cheerleader’s cry 3 Words solemnly sworn 4 Subway system 5 Swede who developed a temperature scale 6 Ease up on 7 Without repetition 8 Sound of disapproval 9 Purchase for a newborn 10 “Jeopardy!” host Trebek 11 *Marinara sauce thickener 12 Vice president between Gore and Biden 13 Fairy tale boy who outsmarts a witch 18 Mean witch’s pronouncement 21 Soft mineral 22 Bottle stopper 23 Landmass bounded by a mountain chain and three oceans 24 *Dispenser of psychiatric advice to Charlie Brown 25 Notable achievement 29 Book jacket write-up 32 What might turn up dirt on someone? 34 Stars-andstripes land, for short 36 Call at a deli or barbershop 38 What psychological trauma may leave 39 Swine 41 Like a midlevel general or a so-so movie 42 Hippocratic ___ 43 Social gaffe 44 “Slumdog Millionaire” setting 45 Cooking oil brand 46 Peak 48 Steamy 53 Churchill Downs event 55 1970s tennis champ Nastase 56 Sorvino of “Mighty Aphrodite” 58 Overly theatrical type 59 Motorists’ org. 60 Racket 61 Animal with a rack