The New York Times
ACROSS
1 Separation
4 Whip through, say
7 Certain bowling alley buttons
13 Counterpart to a receiver, legally
15 *Complete fools
16 Carry zero weight, idiomatically
17 Rickety piano, in old music biz slang
18 Link with
19 Pride : lions :: parliament : ___
21 High-traffic hosp. areas
22 Things tube tops lack
24 *Ones with clay pigeons in their sights
27 “Feel me?”
29 Melancholy, with “the”
31 “Da ___ Show”
35 Bit of solar wind
36 Wincing, maybe
37 Word before stamp or young
39 *Echoes
40 Made up
41 Take the ___
42 Annual D.C. address since 1913
43 Unpleasant
encounter
44 It’s usually blue
46 Hoedown, e.g.
48 *Outrage
53 Event involving “floating,” in brief 54 Some drafts, for short 56 Fake
57 Frozen treat
60 Closing parts
62 Climate change, gun regulation, etc.
63 Get some rest … or what to do with the end of the previous answer to solve each starred clue
64 Becoming
65 Onetime presidential nickname
66 Bit
DOWN
1 Attire for a fighter pilot
2 “Star” of a fall garden
3 Historic caravel
4 “Star Wars” boy, informally
5 Tennis star Gauff
6 1872 utopian novel whose title is an anagram of NOWHERE
7 “Midnight Cowboy” role
8 Music publishing
co. owned by Sony
9 Light of day
10 Language in which “crossword puzzle” is krucvortenigmo”
11 Page detached from a magazine
12 IDs since the Great Depression, in brief 13 Book of the New Testament
14 Cloyingly sentimental
20 Especially mean
23 Did half of a biathlon
25 Lift up a mountain
26 Walt Disney’s middle name
28 Connector between false alternatives
30 Home to the NCAA’s Aztecs: Abbr.
31 Quite a distance
32 One who’s meditating might be in this
33 Locomotive, quaintly
34 Some spirits
36 Celebrity chef Jacques
38 Kind of diagram
39 Blacklist
41 Offshore competition
44 Ballroom dance move
45 Tree whose first four letters are an anagram of another tree
47 Spaced out
49 Taboo in one of the Ten Commandments 50 Namesake of Ithaca’s sea
51 One way to watch a movie
52 Where IBM is “IBM”: Abbr.
53 Goddess of healing and magic
55 Seinfeld’s car on “Seinfeld”
58 Mooch
59 Undulating swimmer
61 Onetime presidential nickname