THE NYT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Powerful singer’s asset, informally
11 Prophet in the Book of Mormon
15 Gelato alternative
16 Like ___ of worms
17 Pioneer in heliocentric theory
18 Fishing floats
19 Baht : Thailand :: ___ : Laos
20 +, $ or @
21 Observed visiting
23 Imperial sticks, say
25 San Francisco’s ___ Tower
27 Dismal turnout
28 End of a letter
30 Backstage Broadway worker
32 Unmitigated disaster, in slang
35 Jeanne d’Arc, e.g.: Abbr.
38 Raptors’ home: Abbr.
39 Shoebox spec
40 Second-in-command at a corp.
41 Leonardo da Vinci drawing featuring superimposed body positions
45 Very light
46 They roll in 50 Erie or Miami
51 D.C. tourist destination
54 Senate majority leader who succeeded Dole
55 The house of Versace?
57 Vanquish
59 Bucolic expanse
60 Having a scrap
61 John Nash’s field of mathematics
64 Narrow margin
65 A question of cosmology
66 Mime and puppetry, e.g.
67 Went door to door?
DOWN
1 Twisted types
2 Cannes star
3 CNN newsman Jake
4 Copa Mundial cry
5 You may visit a lot of them before Christmas
6 Kind of attack
7 Covent Garden architect Jones
8 Spreads out in a park?
9 Euro forerunner
10 Time in therapy, e.g.: Abbr.
11 Shia who’s not a Muslim
12 Cost-effective
13 Cayenne’s hotter cousin
14 Like much FM radio
22 Implore
24 Human appendage?
26 “Count ___” (calming advice)
29 They’re traded in the Chicago Board of Trade
31 Feel
33 Affect
34 Hector’s father
35 2015 Literature Nobelist Alexievich
36 Certain chemistry lab apparatus
37 Immanuel Kant, for one
42 Purchase incentives
43 In a 6-Down
44 It’s nothing
47 Bit of computer programming executed repeatedly
48 Perpetual, poetically
49 Didn’t take off
52 “Brigadoon” composer
53 Theorbos, e.g.
56 Ottoman chiefs
58 Soften
62 Cardinals’ home: Abbr.
63 “My God!,” as cried by Jesus