The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across 1 Like night and day
12 Take another direction 15 Alternative to Pandora or Spotify 16 Words of praise 17 Became excited 18 Business concern 19 2016 campaign topic 20 Difficulty picking up subtleties 22 Comparative indicator 25 Pool cover 27 Dormant 28 “Ain’t gonna happen!” 30 Pretension 33 Loyalty, old-style 34 Timorese, e.g. 35 Richest part 36 Is dormant 38 Faced with courage 40 Oxford designation 41 Son-in-law of Chief Powhatan 43 Ebbs
45 One getting depressed on the road 47 Person with a mental bloc? 48 It may prey on a ray 49 Team in Houston 51 Inspiron maker 52 Means of keeping musical time 55 Date preceder 57 With 10-Down, go wild 58 President Clinton hosted one in 2000 63 Football stat: Abbr.
64 Big headache for a company rep
65 They have sgts. 66 Intuition about something soon to happen
Down 1 Drag accessory 2 “Well, I’ll be!” 3 Like hall-offame inductees, typically 4 Time for many TV talk shows, informally 5 Refinery container 6 Fire on from above
7 “The Governator” 8 Valencian dishes
9 Also say 10 See 57-Across 11 Collette of “United States of Tara”
12 2-3 or 1-2-2, in basketball 13 “We agreed to it, so you’d better deliver” 14 Recharge, so to speak 21 “Little Birds” author 22 P.G.A. Championship airer
23 Goof off 24 Minority group 26 Crow, for one 29 Start of a billet-doux 31 Roadway finisher 32 Knocked out 34 C. S. Lewis’s symbol of Jesus 37 Edible part of a mesquite tree 39 “Sudden Death” star, 1995
40 A star might go on one 42 Like a wet noodle
44 Its artists do many sketches, for short 46 Too slick 47 Boggy 50 Counterpart of a blitz 53 Pandora and Spotify 54 Kind of walk 56 Deli case display 59 “___ ohev otach” (Hebrew for “I love you”) 60 Staff 61 Government org. impersonated in many phishing scams 62 Starting point for a hole