N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Bart who was the first Super Bowl M.V.P.

6 In a funk 9 Evita who was played by Madonna 14 Civil rights leader Williams, who was an associate of Martin Luther King Jr.

15 Piece of fiction

16 Intent look

17 Started the kitty

18 Pebble in one’s shoe, e.g. 20 *Inclination to follow the majority 22 Sign of a theatrical hit

23 Lead-in to “la-la” 24 “Couldn’t care less” 25 Liturgical vestment

28 Wonderland cake words 30 News anchor Holt

32 *Phones inadvertently 36 Mother of Prince Harry 37 Not worth ___ (valueless) 38 Hazards on the links 40 Prison at sea

41 ___ Island Red (chicken) 43 *Boy Scout handbook topic

45 League of Nations city 47 Soak one’s bib

48 Sounds of hesitation 49 “Six-pack” muscles

51 Bit of body art

52 Comics bark 55 *One upstaging a star, say 58 On and on and on ...

61 One of two on some wedding cakes

62 With 64-Across, performer who is like the words sounded out at the starts of the answers to the four starred clues 63 Greeting in old Rome 64 See 62-Across 65 No longer in dreamland 66 Barbie’s beau 67 V-formation flier

DOWN

1 Persian rulers

2 Skin care product

3 N.L. pennant winner in 2005 and A.L. pennant winner in 2017 and 2019

4 Marsh plant 5 Commercial that might have a jingle 6 Punctuation that may mean “or” 7 Nonstandard negative

8 Bib overalls material 9 Pumped up, so to speak 10 Florida, e.g., to the French 11 Took to one’s heels

12 “The Lord of the Rings” fiend

13 Born, in Bordeaux 19 Like Nash’s lama

21 Cry in a game of tag

25 Arcade game pioneer 26 Leader on view in Red Square

27 Fort ___, North Carolina 28 Chopin exercise 29 Serengeti antelope 31 Seeress of ancient Greece

32 Erie Canal craft

33 Helper at a wedding 34 Tweety and Sylvester, for two

35 Guys who fish or hunt, say

39 Ermine, by another name

42 One fleeing a flood, perhaps 44 Common promotional giveaway 46 $5 bills, slangily

50 Go furtively 52 Bush 43 Supreme Court appointee 53 Second chances, casually 54 “___ Jacques” 55 Give the ax

56 Rain gutter site

57 With the bow, musically 58 “Selma” director DuVernay 59 Wall Street index, with “the”

60 Long of 2004’s “Alfie”