THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Pieces of mail 6 Watson’s creator 9 Lots 14 * Features accompanying the comics, often 15 What a baby

may be 16 * Like some

tennis volleys 17 Atlas go- with 19 Legendary

racing name 20 Blue- pencil 21 Grimm boy 23 Nashville sch. 24 Iceman Phil or

Tony 26 H. S. excellence

exam 28 Mined matter 29 John Jacob ___ 30 Option after a transmission failure 34 Stalls 37 “Well, did you

___?!” 38 Out of sorts … or what completes the answers to the nine starred clues 40 Suffix with senior 41 Sweet breakfast

pastry 43 “___ he- e- ere!” 45 Jewish wedding

rings? 46 Radiologist’s

tool, briefly 47 Something to sing over and over 49 Ad come- on,

redundantly 54 Boat propeller 55 Double curve 57 Inter ___ 58 Beethoven’s

“___ Solemnis” 60 Makers of

knockoffs 62 * Labradoodle,

e. g. 63 Capital of Japan 64 * Symbol on

some flags 65 Davis of

Hollywood 66 Couples’ place? 67 Rub off

Down

1 “Gosh, you shouldn’t’ve” 2 * Intersection 3 Bygone U. S. Postal Service mascot 4 Keats’s “___ Psyche” 5 Q- U string 6 Dream up 7 Good, to Guillermo 8 Cousteau’s milieux 9 Forms 10 Reason not to

do something 11 Cause for

budget cutting 12 * Appear as

Tootsie, e. g. 13 Parade 18 Low- quality 22 Life of Riley 25 Favorite ___ 27 Fields of comedy 29 Olympics competitor of NZL 30 Union foe 31 Garden evictee 32 Upright

swimmers 33 Fielding flaw 34 * Weapon for

William Tell 35 Novy ___ ( Russian literary magazine) 36 Guadalajara- to

Mexico City dir.

39 Dorm figs. 42 Campaign 44 Rush 46 Steve Buscemi’s role in “Reservoir Dogs” 47 Two- for- one, e. g. 48 * Scope lines 49 Hall- of-___ 50 Swamp thing 51 Actress Massey 52 * Bygone

Chryslers

53 Cup of Cannes

56 Informal greeting

59 Six, in Sicilia 61 Former justice

Fortas