THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1, 4 & 7 Both sides … or the missing starts for all the remaining Across answers 10 Plot 12 Stops working 14 For free 15 Manuscript reviewer 16 Talk 17 Disclose 18 Walks 20 Like some explosions and substances 22 German toast 23 Bowl-shaped part of the ear 24 Moral sense 28 Traffic 32 Atom parts 33 Ban 35 Study of verse 36 Some golf events 37 Family name on “Roseanne” 38 Singer Stevens 39 Characterized by 41 Solidifies 43 Be made up (of) 44 Hinders 46 Squeezes 48 Iran-___ 49 1997 Nicolas Cage/John Malkovich thriller 50 Ones jacking up prices, maybe 54 Declared publicly 58 Bit of mountain flora 59 Introduction 61 Signify 62 Big shells 63 Associates 64 Show 65 For a while 66 French tales 67 “Now!” DOWN 1 ___-Penh 2 Rampant 3 Something you might get your mitts on 4 “___ Death” (Grieg work) 5 Conjunction that’s usually part of a pair 6 Tidy up, in a way 7 Cobra’s shape, at times 8 French wave 9 Declined 11 Clears the board 12 Complain 13 Group of three rhyming lines 14 They’re a couple short of C notes 19 Cacophony 21 Quaker cereal 24 Laurel and Lee 25 Astronomer’s sighting 26 Orch. member 27 German article 28 Ladies in waiting? 29 Like some columns 30 Keats, for one 31 Some Security Council votes 34 “___ pal” 40 Pictures of the Old West 41 Twists into a knot 42 Loses freshness 43 Fathering 45 Dander 47 Narrow waterway 50 Half of a bestseller list: Abbr. 51 “___ hollers, let …” 52 Overflow (with) 53 Shade of black 54 Skips, as class 55 Early time 56 Conseil d’___ 57 Show, informally 60 Test for an M.A. seeker