NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Tour de France

leg

6 Showbiz grand

slam

10 Potential con 14 Keen

15 Kin of King

Kong

17 Homer’s self-satisfied assertion? 19 Aurora’s

counterpart 20 Multinational

insurance inits. 21 Kind of nut 22 Feasts, e.g. 25 Pours from one container to another

29 Bums, for

example? 31 Court org. 33 Spanish article 34 Bug that no one

likes

35 Yam source,

historically? 40 Québec street 41 Egg: Prefix 42 Some raw

materials 43 Place to find a

comet?

48 Does the watusi,

say

49 Laundry leftover 53 Steps on a

scale?

54 That there 55 Sweetheart 56 Thoroughly … or a hint for parsing some lowercase letters in four of this puzzle’s clues

62 Sensed without

being sure 63 “Woo-hoo!” 64 Arabian port 65 Critical time 66 It may come in

shells

Down

1 Waste line

2 Lake in the

Sierra Nevada 3 Sounding

shocked

4 Grok

5 Jazz Age, e.g. 6 Self-seeker 7 Subject of rationing in the old English navy

8 Work started by London’s Philological Soc. 9 Wood shop tool 10 Discriminatory compensation practice 11 Water

monitoring grp. 12 Band with the 4x platinum albums “Out of Time” and “Monster” 13 Pitchforkshaped letter 16 Affect

emotionally 18 Cat, in Córdoba 23 Bubbly source 24 Peruse 25 [Correct!]

26 Like some checking accounts 27 Poker snafus 28 Name that’s an

alphabetic trio 30 Caesar dressing? 31 Shark’s racket 32 Pickle unit 36 Certain facial

decoration 37 Currier and ___ 38 Feature of many

a Druid’s robe 39 Sea eagles 40 Onetime inits. on the Supreme Court 44 King of Saudi Arabia beginning in 2015

45 Hide away 46 Like a wide grin 47 Info on a security badge, for short

50 Falls into line 51 Diamond figure 52 Home country of the twotime Olympic marathon winner Eliud Kipchoge 54 Facility often referred to by its first letter 56 Mortgage org. 57 “Sweet!”

58 It’s an honor 59 Derrière 60 Drench

61 “J to ___ L-O! The Remixes” (2002 album)