The New York Times Crossword

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