The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across 1 HarleyDavidson bike, in slang 4 Assume

the role of 9 Like Vatican

affairs 14 Plains tribe

name 15 Emulate Picasso or Pollock 16 “Too rich for

my blood” 17 Place to pay the going rate? 19 Skin

abnormalities 20 Dummies 21 Dennis the Menace, for one 23 Former G. M.

compact 24 Margarine 25 Put at risk 29 Affectedly

polite 31 Exactly

right 32 Former Nevada senator Harry 34 How Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic 35 Something that might be thrown behind a teacher’s back 40 Bowling venue 41 Input for fivethirtyeight. com 42 Like Baroque

architecture 44 Purchase

payment plan 49 In all

probability 52 Add punch to,

as the punch 53 ___ pro nobis 54 Cardinal’s insignia 55 Florida senator Rubio 56 “O death, where is thy ___?”: I Corinthians 58 Masterpiece waiting to be found … or a hint to the words in the circled letters 61 Right- hand page of an open book 62 People eaters,

maybe 63 Work

of Horace 64 Namely,

in Latin 65 “Toodles” 66 Room with

an easy chair

Down 1 “Oh, goody!” 2 Peter with eight Academy Award nominations ( and, sadly, zero wins) 3 ___ Globes 4 iPad

downloads 5 “Silent” prez 6 ___ Maria 7 W. W. II Allied landing site in Italy 8 Philatelist’s buy 9 Polaroid,

e. g. 10 Part of the brain believed to control emotion 11 Neptune’s Greek counterpart 12 Big name

in car parts 13 Capts.’ inferiors 18 Booty 22 Rocket launch

site 25 Taunt 26 “On the Waterfront” director Kazan 27 “I’m not kidding!” 28 Cincinnati-toPhiladelphia dir. 30 1974 top 10 foreignlanguage hit 33 Double-___

recession 35 Repeated

word for word 36 “The Vampire Chronicles” author 37 The “them” in “Let them eat cake” 38 Restaurant

freebie 39 The “thing,”

to Hamlet 40 Cut ( off) 43 Letters on many ambulances 45 King of comedy 46 Mars, for

example 47 Give in ( to) 48 Guards at Buckingham Palace 50 One of the Three Musketeers 51 Singer

Mary J. ___ 55 ___ Verde

National Park 56 Guru’s title 57 Tricked but

good 59 “Dr.” who co- founded Beats Electronics 60 Actress Susan