The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Classic makeshift solution
9 Side dish at a Korean restaurant
15 Sent
16 Some spuds
17 Luxuriating in the great outdoors
18 George who directed “Night of the Living Dead”
19 ___ Evans, many-time collaborator with Miles Davis
20 Alveolus, e.g.
21 What’s got you down?
22 Just got (by)
24 San Diego’s
___ Institute
26 “… ish”
27 Make more secure, in a way
29 Cleansing of the soul
32 Pro Bowl team that wears blue jerseys
34 Game played with beanbags
35 Gas pump abbr.
38 Megan who was Sports Illustrated’s 2019 Sportsperson of the Year
40 Impetus for a rescue mission
41 Unbiased opinion, e.g.
43 Asheville-to-Knoxville dir.
45 Convenience store sign
47 Caesar dressing ingredient, familiarly
51 Spots for wet bars
52 Man’s name that rhymes with a number
54 Rachel ___, seven-season TV role for Meghan Markle
55 Collection of seeds?
58 “You thought!”
60 Prime meridian std.
61 Finance reporter Ron
62 Click the “X” when vexed, maybe
64 Kind of roll
65 Drain
66 Sends
67 Something you might earn by having a long crossword-solving streak, informally
Down
1 Construction site sight
2 Change of heart on Facebook
3 Home in the mountains
4 Pro ___
5 Music of the night?
6 Alternatives to Nikes
7 Ink saver
8 Subtitles option: Abbr.
9 Soprano ___ Te Kanawa
10 Fetishized one
11 Ginormous
12 The surface tension of milk makes them stick together
13 Bit of jazz improv
14 Atoms that have the same number of neutrons
21 Home of Minor League Baseball’s Rubber Ducks
23 Hubbub
25 Grammywinning folk singer Williams
28 Zac of “17 Again”
30 Bloom or balloon
31 Bring to ___
33 Dealers have lots of them
35 Transport not meant for trails
36 Like contractors vis-à-vis employees
37 Settings for pep rallies
39 Gist
42 Wrong for the role
44 Virtuoso, informally
46 Flammable compound with two carbons
48 Auto whose engine is apt to purr?
49 Opposite of remote
50 Cleared
53 Hot to trot
56 It’s a real bender
57 Wearable Disneyland memento
59 Collective
62 Knights of ___ (“Star Wars” order)
63 HSN alternative