NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Podcasters’ needs
5 Meaty pasta sauce
9 “Hey, by the way …”
14 Apple with multiple cores
15 Eurasian river 16 Abstain from
17 *Job for a coxswain with rowdy rowers?
20 What’s tolerated by every body?
21 Natural hairstyles
22 Poorly
23 *Review for a so-so bakery?
26 2007 Michael Moore documentary about health care
28 “You’ve got ___ nerve!”
29 Melody
30 It’s often in stock
34 Chose a course
37 Dorothy Parker quality
38 *Person who assigns the order of opening presents?
40 “Yes,” in Japanese
41 Check box of last resort
43 Norse protector of humankind
44 Complain querulously
45 Kyrgyzstan mountain range
47 Extremist sects
49 *Completes a superhero transformation?
54 And others too numerous to mention
55 Nary a soul
56 Island nation whose currency is the tala
60 Preschool teacher’s mantra … or a hint to the answers to the starred clues
63 Have a nibble of
64 Brazilian berry
65 She, on the Seine
66 Expression that might accompany a mustache twirl
67 Word repeated in a 1956 Doris Day single
68 Brighter times
DOWN
1 It’s catching
2 “Not sure yet” 3 Something to make or break
4 “Magic that works,” per Vonnegut
5 Runner on the ground?
6 Like an excited crowd
7 Social blunder
8 Marine leader?
9 Small ice cream order
10 Ad ___
11 “Never mind what I just said!”
12 One of the Astaires
13 Caterwauls
18 Cozy corner 19 Romantic attraction, slangily, with “the”
24 Its name means “waterless place” in Mongolian
25 Hype (up)
26 Something to follow, in cards
27 “If so, then …”
29 Number of graduates in the first class at West Point (1802)
31 Poetic frequency
32 Utmost
33 Writer Umberto
35 Buds go in them
36 Dance floor flourish
38 Less sharp, as footage
39 Animal whose brain has the most gray matter of any mammal
42 They’re raised in Chi-town
44 Found innocent
46 Part of, as a plot
48 “___-daisy!”
49 Tales of daring
50 Frome of fiction
51 Classical coverups
52 Chilling
53 Labor activist Chavez
57 “___ 18” (novel by Leon Uris)
58 Exclusively
59 Wrinkles in time?
61 Its ways are numbered: Abbr.
62 O.S.S. successor