The New York Times Crossword
By Ashish Vengsarkar & Narayan Venkatasubramanyan
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 Pitchfork-shaped 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 two-time 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)