The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Suckling site 6 Piedmont wine

center

10 Lay an egg, so

to speak 14 “Prospero

Año ___!” 15 Garbage-hauling boat 16 Hitchhiker’s

hope

17 Start of a quip about a whimsical celebrity couple

20 It may run the Sierra OS 21 Winner’s hand

gesture

22 Like “it,”

grammatically 23 Quip, part 2 26 Treelike creature of Middle-earth 27 River of France

and Belgium 28 Dadaist Jean 31 De Botton who wrote “The Architecture of Happiness” 35 Words sealed

with a kiss 36 First name in

stunt cycling 37 Quip, part 3 41 Greek counterpart of Mars 42 Chemical in

Drano 43 Kvetches

44 “Far out!” 45 Target of ID

theft: Abbr. 46 Bluto’s was 0.0 in “Animal House”

48 Quip, part 4 54 “American Pie”

singer Don 57 Article in Le

Monde

58 First name at

Woodstock 59 End of the

quip

62 Best Picture of

1958

63 Like elbowing through a crowd, say 64 Flashes one’s

pearlies 65 Smart-alecky

talk

66 George Orwell’s

alma mater 67 Test for gold

content, say

Down

1 Square 2 Cathedral of Florence 3 ___ flask

(thermos)

4 Kick out

5 Heed the

coxswain 6 Green light 7 Amtrak posting: Abbr. 8 Proverbial amount of bricks 9 Wartime poster phrase

10 Con artist’s

crime

11 Cheery

tune

12 Drooling dog of

the comics 13 Source of pressure, perhaps 18 Nobelist Pavlov 19 Things having their home on the range? 24 Drop-down

item 25 Gucci of

fashion

28 State firmly 29 Swing a scythe,

say

30 Grade enhancer 31 Cracked a bit 32 Logan of CBS

News

33 Got completely

correct 34 Mensa members’ assets 35 Curling

surface

36 Fig. in a pilot’s

announcement 38 “To be, or not to be” soliloquy setting 39 Coordinate, as audio and video

40 Whole bunch 45 Household item whose manufacture employs 42-Across 46 Mob hit

participants 47 “Spare me!,”

for one 48 Games played by Elite Eight winners

49 Get the better

of

50 Phoebe of

“Gremlins” 51 Polygon

measures 52 Andean source of wool 53 God-awful 54 Boardroom events: Abbr.

55 “Pet” that

needs watering 56 Endurance,

informally 60 Same old same

old

61 Org. for Raptors and Hawks

David Kwong