The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Goof 16 Mischievous character in West African folklore 17 Hosts

18 David who took 15 years to write “The History of England”

19 Cut into 20 Andy Capp’s wife in the comics 21 Somme times 22 Fabergé egg

recipient 24 “The pretty worm of Nilus … that kills and pains not,” per Shakespeare 26 Concept in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism 30 Swashbuckler’s

implement 32 Course

34 “You couldn’t be more wrong!” 35 Diplomatic

successes 39 Find inner

strength

41 ___ Island 42 Will can change

it

44 Total package? 46 Shameless

sycophant 49 Doubly

hyphenated fig. 50 Book it 52 Where the idiom “on a roll” comes from

55 Self starter? 57 Attendant of

Dionysus 60 New Balance

competitor 61 Passiveaggressive tactic 64 Renter’s

amenity

65 Gaze at with

appreciation

Down

1 Computer store 2 Have ___ (be able to save face) 3 Hit hard

4 Snarl

5 Sch. whose yearbook is the “Gumbo” 6 Strauss’s “___ Nacht in Venedig” 7 Brouhaha

8 Aim for

9 Sets right 10 “Seriously!” 11 Place of

salubrity

12 Two in a row,

say?

13 Capital city near Kangaroo Island

14 It’s called paraffin oil in the U.K. 15 Starts of

hedges 23 Unkempt 25 Hold

(up) 27 Unfulfilled

duty

28 Staff

29 Sine qua

non

31 What a whale watcher may watch 33 Mystery writer

Buchanan 35 Doesn’t go straight, in a way 36 Birthplace of

Lewis Carroll 37 Julius Caesar’s

first wife 38 Wordsworth wrote one about a cuckoo

40 Web access

co.

43 It has furrowed

gray bark 45 Came in

behind 47 ___ Brown, Whoopi Goldberg’s role in “Ghost” 48 Established

facts

51 Like some

44-Across 53 Part of mayo that’s most popular? 54 No longer on

the table 56 Cranks

(up)

58 Urges

59 Play a critical

role?

61 Block

letters? 62 Bryce Harper when he won a 2015 M.V.P. award, e.g.

63 Tax