The 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 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)