NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Something a provocateur opposes

10 Trailing

15 Tart dessert topping

16 “Not true!”

17 “Shame, that”

18 Lyre-playing greatgranddaughter of 8-Down

19 Hardly be hard (on)

20 Spam holders

21 Begins to come to

22 Point ___, oceanic spot farthest from land

24 Drugstore brand named for its target area

26 ___ Bator

27 What some screens catch

29 Speak before a meal, perhaps

31 Photo-editing function

33 Offering with a blessing?

34 “Es tut ___ leid” (“I’m sorry,” in German)

37 Ottoman title

38 With 45-Down, pre-marriage name of a 1940s-’50s first lady

39 Banned compound once used to control malaria

40 Part of a typical business search result on Google

42 Prized, perhaps

44 “Fare thee well”

46 No longer feeling

48 Really feeling

49 Defeat soundly

51 D.C. group

53 You may wake up with one in your back

55 Urchin, perhaps

57 Cart (around)

59 Kind of guide at a museum

60 Magazine position

62 Win big, with “up”

63 Hot wheels?

64 “My Inventions” autobiographer

65 Pocket-size medical tools

Down

1 Dropped, as in the rankings

2 County in Wyoming, Montana or Idaho

3 River for which a European capital is named

4 Representative

5 Game with a 112-card deck

6 Burns, e.g.

7 Portmanteau unit of computing information

8 “Sky father” of Greek myth

9 Book agent?

10 Mission Santa ___ (National Historic Landmark in California)

11 Encourage

12 Where Songkran is a national New Year’s holiday

13 Beat to the finish

14 Question at a press conference, maybe

23 Place to drive, if you’re so inclined?

25 Like much of Maine

28 Like ancient

Roman senators

30 Get equipped

32 Insect with a delicate nest

34 Tricky thing to pull off?

35 Absolutism

36 Colorful blooms along the coast 41 Withdrawn, in a way

43 Tearing up, perhaps

45 See 38-Across

47 Stain

50 Dog that’s a cross of two French-named breeds

52 Source of some fur

54 Hawaii’s ___ Coast

56 Cut down 58 Isn’t right

61 ___ Fratelli (tomato sauce brand)