The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Make sense 6 Many a getrich-quick scheme 10 Meal cooked in

a Crock-Pot 14 Atlanta train

system

15 Wife of Zeus 16 Domesticated 17 Moolah 18 Distance between belt holes, maybe 19 Sign at a highway interchange 20 Capable of floating, as a balloon 23 Low-ranking “Star Trek” officer: Abbr. 24 Sombrero, e.g. 25 Smidgen 26 Neon or

xenon

27 Soul singer

Thomas

29 Wail 32 Sanctimonious 36 Ken, to Barbie 37 “Rocks,” in a

drink 38 Captain’s place

on a ship 39 Imposing and

then some 44 Units on a football field: Abbr.

45 ___ Susan (dining table centerpiece) 46 How long it might take for a mountain to form

47 Word before

“bite” or “go” 48 Rapper ___-Z 49 Word sometimes confused with “lie”

52 “Let’s put things in perspective” … or a title for this puzzle 57 Martin Luther King’s “Letter From Birmingham ___” 58 Debtors’

notes

59 Brain divisions 60 Gawk at

61 ___ menu (where to find Cut, Copy and Paste) 62 Longtime Yankees manager Joe 63 Runner Usain 64 Where bears

hibernate 65 Gives a

thumbs-up

Down

1 Saunter 2 1950s-’60s

singer Bobby 3 Bottom of the

barrel

4 Salt Lake City’s

home 5 Stir-fried

noodle dish 6 Jersey

7 Penny

8 Feature over many a doorway 9 Honorific for

Gandhi 10 Ending with

farm or home 11 Move from the gate to the runway, say 12 Mideast

bigwig 13 “Caution — ___ paint” (sign) 21 Simplicity 22 Vindaloo

accompaniment 26 When repeated, water cooler sound

27 Like a poison

ivy rash 28 Mother of Zeus (and an anagram of 15-Across) 29 “Give my compliments to the ___”

30 Part to

play 31 “De-e-elish!” 32 Chairperson,

e.g.

33 Cousins of

paddles 34 Cracker brand with a yellow-and-blue logo 35 Like Girl Scout

“Mints” 36 Pioneering

journalist Nellie 40 Woman’s name that’s also a Spanish pronoun 41 Made a

comeback 42 1963 Best

Actress Patricia 43 Never betraying 47 Speck of land

in the sea 48 Kids around 49 The Scales 50 Big office

supply brand 51 Positive

responses 52 Shakespeare villain who says “Virtue? A fig!” 53 Cash register

drawer

54 Rich vein of ore 55 Pompeii or

Machu Picchu 56 Nabbed

57 What you’re

hired to do