The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Quartet that reunited in 2022 to “perform” as holograms
5 Hell’s Half ___ (Wyoming landmark) 9 Chromosomes come in them
14 Croc, for one
15 Big name in bubbly
16 Condition linked with grinding teeth
17 District on the western coast of Hawaii
18 Craisin brand
20 Female scholars
22 Lead-in to zone
23 Smallish batteries
24 Author Patchett
27 Components of Mars’s Viking and Pathfinder
30 Intrinsic makeup
33 Fabric whose name is French for “cloth”
35 Hirsute cousin of old TV
36 Gooey addition to a charcuterie board
37 Where turn signals are found
41 Delicacies for which Aveiro, Portugal, is known
42 “Surely you don’t mean me!?”
43 Speechless expression
44 Showstoppers?
45 Bach composition
48 Scratch, say
49 It might be cocked or bent
50 N.B.A.’s Westbrook, to fans
52 Grammy winners for “Jump (for My Love)” (1984)
59 “Apologies for bothering you …”
60 Massage deeply
62 Mosquito, by nature
63 Chip in
64 Ski lift
65 Dutch settlers of South Africa
66 & 67 One of two pen names punnily hinted at by 20-, 37and 52-Across (can you find the other one?)
Down
1 “Oh, no!”
2 Explode
3 Pro ___
4 Best effort
5 Egyptian sun god
6 Result of some spinning
7 Danger for a mariner
8 Abbreviated abbreviation
9 They might be served carbonara or puttanesca
10 Datebook data: Abbr.
11 About, on a memo
12 Vanguard’s opposite
13 “Survey ___ …” (“Family Feud” catchphrase)
19 Almost adjoining
21 Swiss mathematician who introduced functional notation
24 Totally confused
25 Prominent
26 Physicist Bohr
28 You can count on it
29 Abbreviated abbreviation
30 Amateur pediatrician, informally
31 Strong, silent type?
32 Norse pantheon
34 Paul for whom a guitar is named
36 Backside
38 Turkish inn
39 Prefix with apology or denial
40 “He is richest who is content with the ___”: Socrates
45 Supplies, as a soiree
46 Stiff bristle, botanically
47 Elephant or warthog, e.g.
49 Put in
51 Company with Counting Sheep commercials
52 Last name in soft drinks
53 Reds state
54 “Not hungry yet, but thanks anyway”
55 Word with “Revolutionary” or “Tobacco,” in book titles
56 In one’s right mind
57 ___ Stark, Lord Eddard’s eldest on “Game of Thrones”
58 Unit of meat or marble
61 Fish hatchlings