The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Quickly microwave
4 Stock index founded in 1885, informally
10 Cooler in glasses
13 Afflictions
15 Elder Levy in “Schitt’s Creek”
16 Islanders’ grp.
17 People who acknowledge when they’ve been verbally bested?
19 Berkeley, familiarly
20 Paper opener
21 Two for a basket: Abbr.
22 “Sweet!”
23 Ruins a shiny fabric, as a pet might?
27 Stratovolcano in Sicily
28 Shot taker
30 Computer scientist Turing
33 “Should that be true …”
36 Determined to do
37 Power, as an engine
38 Embassy staffer … or a hint to 17-, 23-, 49- and 59-Across?
40 “S.N.L.” alum Gasteyer
41 Colosseum country
43 Lead-in to girl
44 Skating jump
45 Numb, as a foot
47 MCAT subj.
49 Bad advice from grandpa?
54 Without
55 Desire
56 Spammer’s medium
58 Parabola piece
59 Managed to stomach a cracker spread?
62 Undefined ordinal
63 Feared fifthcentury ruler
64 Diez menos dos
65 Turn red, maybe
66 Summit attendee
67 Corral, e.g.
Down
1 Cylindrical pasta
2 ___ the way
3 Dog owned by a talking mouse
4 Equipment not needed in miniature golf
5 Cabana
6 King Tut’s land
7 Profundity
8 “Be right with you”
9 Director Anderson
10 Payroll deduction
11 Parent on a field trip, often
12 Woman’s name that sounds like a letter of the alphabet
14 Vet
18 Run the show, say
22 Maggie Smith, for one
24 “I’ll do that right away!”
25 International pact that ended in 2020
26 Blast with a beam of photons
29 Fussy in the extreme
30 Handel’s “La giustizia,” for one
31 Bacchanalian cry
32 Overwhelming amount
34 Took a load off
35 Group of eight
38 “The ___ have it!”
39 Suspend
42 Without
44 At the original speed, in scores
46 Psychoactive drug from a cactus
48 “So true!”
50 Volkswagen compact
51 Reversed
52 Org. cofounded by W. E. B. Du Bois
53 10% offering
54 Castle material
57 Revolutionary Trotsky
59 Eight pts.
60 Fútbol cry
61 Game with the objective of winning all the cards