The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across 1 “She Bee Stingin’” athlete

9 Answer to the riddle “I have one bow but no arrows. What am I?”

14 H.S. course for College-Kredit

15 New York county that’s home to Binghamton

16 Scholar’s mug collection?

17 Run (to)

18 Groans equivalent to eye rolls

19 Sugar apple, by another name

21 Grade just above average

24 ___ Schwarz

25 Angle symbol, in trigonometry

28 What a cryptid might be

29 Ones doing some heavy lifting before retirement?

31 “___ ready as I’ll ever be”

32 Spinning speed: Abbr.

33 1974 John Wayne movie

34 Gentlemen of Verona, in England

36 Choose 38 Convertible

39 One favoring imitation over innovation

42 Vim

43 “Succession” airer

46 Lamar who played for the 59-Across

47 Floored

49 “Is it just ___ is it hot in here?”

50 Good field for a smooth talker

52 Brief British P.M. ___ Truss

53 Donna ___, “The Goldfinch” author

54 Unrestricted audition

56 [It’s cold in here!]

57 MX-5 roadsters, e.g.

59 N.B.A. team with a 1980s “Showtime” era 64 Baby eels

65 Covert missions ... or what’s covert in eight of this puzzle’s answers

66 Navigates a slippery slope, in a way

67 China and environs

Down

1 Put (down)

2 Mimic

3 Tennis champion Swiatek

4 Gaston who wrote “The Phantom of the Opera”

5 Restaurant chain named after its founders, the Raffel brothers

6 Famous ___

7 Mekong Valley language 8 Key part of a cephalopod’s defense mechanism

9 15th-century headgear for a knight

10 Common aloe descriptor

11 Sorority chaperone

12 Captcha test affirmation

13 Document that may contain a microchip number and a veterinarian’s signature

15 Modern love

20 Pans that sound like strolls

21 X and Y

22 Dosed oneself

23 Like the cleanup crew at closing time, typically

24 Doc to consult when confused

26 –

27 –

29 Retail apparel giant

30 Begat

33 Low in the pasture

35 Interstice

37 Spurred

39 –

40 –

41 “Just ___ with it”

42 Candy dispensed with a “nod” of the head

44 –

45 –

48 Words repeated in the title of a Doris Day hit 49 Pre-euro currency of Finland

51 Leaves damaged

53 It might be a lot

55 Ninny

56 Panama’s Gulf of San ___

57 –

58 –

60 Mobile home: Abbr.

61 Morning glory goddess

62 Sch. in Troy, N.Y.

63 27- or 55-Down backward