NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Tour de

France leg

6 Showbiz

grand slam

10 Potential con 14 Keen

15 Kin of King

Kong

17 Homer’s self-satisfied assertion?

19 Aurora’s

counterpart 20 Multinational insurance inits.

21 Kind of nut

22 Feasts, e.g. 25 Pours from one container to another

29 Bums, for

example?

31 Court org.

33 Spanish

article

34 Bug that no

one likes

35 Yam source,

historically? 40 Québec street

41 Egg: Prefix

42 Some raw

materials

43 Place to find a

comet?

48 Does the watusi, say

49 Laundry

leftover

53 Steps on a

scale?

54 That there

55 Sweetheart 56 Thoroughly … or a hint for parsing some lowercase letters in four of this puzzle’s clues 62 Sensed without being sure

63 “Woo-hoo!” 64 Arabian port

65 Critical time 66 It may come

in shells

DOWN

1 Waste line

2 Lake in the

Sierra Nevada 3 Sounding

shocked

4 Grok

5 Jazz Age,

e.g.

6 Self-seeker

7 Subject of rationing in the old English navy 8 Work started by London’s Philological Soc. 9 Wood shop

tool

10 Discriminatory compensation practice

11 Water monitoring grp.

12 Band with the 4x platinum albums “Out of Time” and “Monster”

13 Pitchforkshaped letter 16 Affect

emotionally 18 Cat, in

Córdoba

23 Bubbly source 24 Peruse

25 [Correct!]

26 Like some checking accounts

27 Poker snafus 28 Name that’s an alphabetic trio

30 Caesar

dressing?

31 Shark’s racket 32 Pickle unit

36 Certain facial

decoration

37 Currier and

___

38 Feature of many a Druid’s robe 39 Sea eagles

40 Onetime inits. on the Supreme Court

44 King of Saudi Arabia beginning in 2015

45 Hide away

46 Like a wide

grin 47 Info on a security badge, for short

50 Falls into line 51 Diamond

figure

52 Home country of the twotime Olympic marathon winner Eliud Kipchoge

54 Facility often referred to by its first letter 56 Mortgage

org.

57 “Sweet!”

58 It’s an honor

59 Derrière

60 Drench

61 “J to ___ L-O! The Remixes” (2002 album)