N.Y. Times Crossword Puzzle

Across

1 Little prankster 4 Does nothing 9 Tots’ fathers 14 Neither’s partner 15 TV host Gibbons 16 Go off like a volcano 17 Info on a dashboard gauge 19 Countryside: Sp. 20 Within: Prefix 21 “I, the Jury” detective 23 Big name in art glass 25 Comic Caesar 26 Thanksgiving

side dish 27 In layers 28 Read leisurely 30 French

legislature 31 Tiny misstep 34 Newspaper opinion piece 35 Common put-down that hints at the ends of 17-, 21-, 53and 58-Across 38 Asia’s shrunken ___ Sea 41 Fill-ins, informally 42 British fellow 46 Divulges 48 PC lookalikes,

e.g. 49 Pres. Lincoln 50 Pop singer Carly ___ Jepsen 52 “Aha!” 53 Flier made from a do-it-yourself kit 56 Fashion magazine with a French name 57 Rust, for example 58 Safety exercise prompted by an alarm 60 Laura and Bruce of the silver screen 61 That is: Lat. 62 Cambodia’s Lon ___ 63 These, to Conchita 64 When repeated, identifies people 65 Before, to a bard

Down

1 Overruns as pests might 2 Canadian police officer 3 In the sixth grade or earlier, typically 4 Sick 5 Judged 6 “Deathtrap” playwright Ira 7 Book before Daniel: Abbr. 8 Counterpart of purchases 9 2010s, e.g. 10 Biblical name for Syria 11 Produce, as page layouts for a printer 12 Mollify 13 Attacked en masse 18 Singer with the #1 R&B hit “You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine” 22 Zoo heavyweight,

for short 24 Top 10 Kiss hit with backing by the New York Philharmonic 29 Dog command 31 Springfield resident Disco ___ 32 Experiment site 33 & 36 “Easy!” 37 Lead-in to “di” or “da” in a Beatles song 38 With ice cream 39 Packs again for shipping 40 Suffered humiliation 43 Length of a pithy joke 44 Garrison of “A Prairie Home Companion” 45 Actress Getty of “The Golden Girls” 47 Discount price phrase 48 Edam or Brie 51 Leprechaunlike 52 Against property, to a judge 54 Poet ___ St. Vincent Millay 55 Opera with a slave girl 59 Drunk’s woe, informally