N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Orthodontic challenges

5 Doctor’s order

10 Grp. that might hold a raffle

13 “Please, enough already!”

14 Like some residents on the Gulf of Aden

15 What’s anything but neutral?

16 Siding?

18 Sarcastic sentence ender

19 Traveling figure, briefly

20 It shares a 1,650+ mile border with the U.S.: Abbr.

21 “I’m game if you’re game!”

22 Sound track?

25 ___ Heep, David Copperfield rival

27 Oration?

30 Dermatologist’s concern

33 Q2 and Q3 maker

34 ___-green

35 Juice brand

36 Female?

39 What “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” supposedly isn’t about

40 Factor for determining one’s grade in school

41 Podcast host Maron

42 Hill with no peak

43 Aground?

48 Foil, e.g.

49 Discuss work outside of work, say

53 Rock’s Joan ___ & the Blackhearts

54 Main squeeze, in modern lingo

55 Réunion buddy

56 Were present?

57 Cold?

62 ___ Fields

63 Fried snack dusted with cinnamon sugar

64 ___ Millions

65 It hits close

to home

66 “On again, off again” love stories, say

67 Hope beyond hope

DOWN

1 “Check it out for yourself”

2 Dog breed named after a region in Japan

3 Frigid

4 One on a slippery slope

5 Novelist/ essayist Susan

6 World’s largest theater chain

7 Informal word of agreement

8 Hometown hero of Louisville, Ky.

9 Swingin’

10 Longtime Life Savers flavor

11 Lacking bite

12 Colonial workers, maybe

14 Little fella

17 Wheedle

21 It may be glossed over

23 Infirmary sight

24 Top round steak, e.g.

25 Grp. that determines what a

24-Down is

26 Pompeii, for one

28 ___ Lock (PC key)

29 When repeated, “You get the idea”

30 Frequent filers, for short

31 Player with a record 10 World Series championships

32 Superficial inspection

36 Discussed over Slack, say, in brief

37 Like shark attacks

38 Magic 8 Ball, e.g.

42 You may find a range of these: Abbr.

44 Sight at a winery

45 Herculean efforts

46 Grassy plain of the Southwest

47 Stretched (out)

50 Curmudgeonly sort

51 Resistance figure

52 A constant celebration?

53 A window may go in it

57 Injection units, for short

58 Clicking sound?

59 Persian, e.g.

60 Cup holder

61 Fuse box unit