The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Royal Catherine 5 All-day, in a

way

9 Rides

13 Agave lookalike 14 Spring, for one 15 Fancy summer

home 16 Grocery store worker on the days leading up to Thanksgiving? 19 Dress (up) 20 Cheesemaking

town

21 Salty expanses 22 Incense residue 23 One who’s

acting out? 24 Some

trimmings 25 Pamphlets on how to use marinara? 31 Lecherous sort 33 Beginning of

time?

34 When doubled, mouse-bopping bunny in a children’s song 35 Sporty Pontiac 38 One with a tattoo of a band’s name, say 41 Oxygen makes up only one-fifth of this on the earth 42 Gossip, slangily 44 Part of some

musical keys 45 Bookie?

50 Card game

shout 51 Winners of a 1932 Australian “war”

52 Org. using millimeter wave scanners 55 Inedible jelly on

a buffet table 58 49-Down’s city,

familiarly 59 Shubert of Broadway’s Shubert Theatre 60 Devices that help dentists monitor anesthesia? 63 En pointe

64 Its flag has “Allahu Akbar” written 22 times 65 Repeated words in an analogy 66 Common

catch

67 Hunt and peck,

say

68 Pronto Down

1 It gets into hot water

2 Chorus

section 3 Inauspicious

beginning 4 Certain whistleblower

5 Hardly basic 6 Personal friend

in France 7 Something cephalopods control for camouflage 8 Units on a graduated cylinder: Abbr. 9 Fine point 10 ___-Seltzer 11 Campbell with the 1975 #1 hit “Rhinestone Cowboy” 12 2003 outbreak 15 Outspoken 17 Pelvis/patella

connectors 18 Sticky ___

pudding 26 Author Rand

27 It’s set in a ring 28 Easy-peasy 29 Speckled 30 Maker of the first portable music player 31 Guess 32 Grammy winner India.___ 36 When both

hands are up 37 Unit of RAM 39 Passes, but not with flying colors 40 Shinzo ___, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister 43 Representative’s work 46 Powerful

engines 47 Feature of

many a belly 48 Angsty hip-hop

subgenre 49 Prestigious university in 58-Across 53 Company whose mascots are sheep with numbers painted on them

54 Author whose titles often feature two animals

55 One with an upturned nose, so to speak 56 Common catch 57 CPR specialists 61 “Scram!”

62 Car once advertised with the slogan “The power to surprise”