The New York Times crossword puzzle

1 Emergency

status 8 Case for a

lawyer, maybe 15 Paper work not usually done at the office 16 Performers with lots of fans? 17 Quintet in a

nursery rhyme 18 Longs 19 Naked “Parks and Recreation” star? 21 Fig. for a dietitian 22 What may follow anything? 23 Some expensive hors d’oeuvres 24 Spread on a

farm 26 Surface again,

as a road 28 Layered lunch

orders 30 Mourn openly

Across

33 Wooden rod 35 Recently 37 “Say ___” 40 Tempo 42 Unpolished 43 Bizarre 45 Balderdash 47 Describe as 48 Out and about 50 Two numbers? 54 Onetime owner

of NBC 56 Hitch 58 Like some fees and feet 59 Bit of discouragement 61 Event at

Walden Pond? 64 Like some

shopping 66 Of the highest

reputation 67 “The last thing I wanted to do was to be a ___ president”: Lyndon Johnson 68 Firm, in a

way 69 Neatens (up) 70 Most baggy

Down

1 Conductor

of note 2 Maker of a

hanging nest 3 Compilation 4 Brainiac 5 Transit

option 6 Mideast title:

Var. 7 Stripped 8 Horrified 9 Well up 10 Ends of some

utensils 11 “Don’t ___” 12 Clothing line from an Oscar-winning singer? 13 Brain-busting 14 Italian pronoun 20 Offspring of

Beauty? 25 Snowy ___ 27 Wear, and look

great doing it 29 Wallop 31 Landing info,

briefly 32 ___ Research Center (polling group) 34 Routes 36 Long row 37 Like a mizzenmast on a ship 38 Equals, in math 39 The Galloping Gourmet in Germany? 41 Any of about 18 elements on the periodic table 44 “The Walking

Dead” channel 46 Quiets 49 Skips the rite

stuff? 51 Paige of Broadway and London’s West End 52 Pollutes 53 Word with

price or parking 55 Top level of many a 62-Down 57 Veronese who painted “The Wedding at Cana” 59 Followers of many breakdowns 60 Rude way to

call a waiter 62 See 55-Down 63 Pageant coif,

maybe 65 Man’s name that’s an alphabet run