The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Parties with smokers
7 “In what universe?!”
11 Positive consideration
14 Make available
15 “Holy cannoli!” 16 Spreadsheet part
17 Wight, e.g.?
19 ___ Productions (company behind the James Bond films)
20 Deployed, as a naval officer
21 Rum drum
22 Soul mates, for short
23 Experienced certain growing pains
25 Emulate the Lonely Goatherd
28 Crunch bar and Cadbury Creme Egg, e.g.?
32 Give it a twirl! 35 Tennis’s Nadal, familiarly
36 Test for coll. seniors
37 Word after gay or fashion
38 Thingamajigs 40 One observing the holiday of Arba‘een
41 Common Thanksgiving activity
42 Home for the Himalayas
43 When some local news comes on
44 1995’s “Johnny Mnemonic,” e.g.?
48 With the heels elevated
49 Smash success
53 Landlocked African country
55 Go yachting
57 Medieval club
58 Squirreled away
59 Sloth, e.g.?
62 & 63 Test for pupils
64 Beat overwhelmingly
65 It may be revolutionary
66 Monocle, basically
67 Apartment building V.I.P.s
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1 What most clarinets are tuned to 2 Became apparent
3 ___ Montgomery, retired W.N.B.A. star
4 Shameless fund-raising drive, informally
5 Who is this in France
6 See 31-Down
7 Handled sharp objects?
8 Deliberately amateurish filming technique
9 Particle with a superscript
10 Flavor of the month
11 When pilots go through their checklists
12 Feature of Arthur Ashe Stadium since 2016
13 Has 18 Youth health and safety org.
22 Resting place
24 Chinese dynasty from 206 B.C. to A.D. 220
26 Keystone Kops, e.g.
27 What makes you unique
29 Band with the first platinumselling double album
30 Northernmost county of Pennsylvania
31 With 6-Down, former White House press secretary portrayed by Melissa McCarthy on “S.N.L.”
32 Donation receptacles
33 Source of a purple purée 34 Washing machine that opens upward 38 Analogy words
39 Window, of a sort
40 Gets foggy
42 Leaf-cutter, e.g.
43 2008 bailout recipient
45 Abolish
46 Leave out
47 Both consonants in “geek,” phonetically
50 Celerity
51 Less sympathetic
52 Is prone
53 Mull (over)
54 “Greetings!”
56 Goes (for)
59 Animation frame
60 Eliminate
61 “Rugrats” grandpa