Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

The New York Times crossword puzzle

- Kevin Curry and Daniel Bodily

Across

1 N.L. East team for which Tom Seaver pitched

5 “Down the ___!” (“Bottoms up!”)

10 Wild guess

14 Pop band with a palindromi­c name

15 Pouch of fluid in an E.R.

16 Site with “Place bid” buttons

17 When repeated, slogan of 1-Down

18 “I ___ what I said”

19 Tirade

20 Torus-shaped treat

22 Actor whose name is appropriat­e to appear in this puzzle

23 ~ 24 Michelle ___, FIFA Female Player of the Century

25 Not just some

26 Treads on Keds

27 Plopped down

28 “Her name is ___ and she dances on the sand” (Duran Duran lyric)

29 Common airport greeting

30 Attempt to cool, in a way

31 Conditions

32 Aruba, Bonaire or Curaçao

34 Astronaut Jemison

35 Nonspecial­ist 38 Mars … or a marble

40 Old man’s old man

42 “Little” Wonder

44 Goes the distance

46 Mandated

47 Mama’s mama

48 ___ Apollo, Grammynomi­nated singer

49 One of five in a Shakespear­e play

52 Like items unveiled in a tech show, colloquial­ly

54 Boxer who received a Liberty Medal for being a “champion of freedom”

57 Foreboding feeling

59 Wee one

60 List in an etiquette book

62 Fitness program originally called “Rumbacize”

63 Market launch, for short

64 Come clean

65 Cast out

66 First music artist to have a video with a billion YouTube views

67 Impoverish­ed

Down

1 Miata maker

2 Kindle item

3 *Chophouse choice

4 One required by a 1629 law to wear two swords

5 “To Know ___ Is to Love ___” (1958 #1 song)

6 Mass recitation

7 *Skier’s support 8 Surefire

9 Driver’s license fig.

10 “No joke!”

11 *Miniature mitt

12 “Storage Wars” network

13 Memory units

21 *Article of summer footwear

23 *Launcher sometimes used during halftime at a sports event

30 Singer Bareilles

33 Canal written about by Twain and Melville

34 Studio with an iconic lion

36 Home of Acadia National Park

37 “I’m at your disposal”

39 One of the B’s in B&B

41 Chess pieces

43 Make a typo, say

45 Bit of advice from a C.P.A.

46 Slobbery tennis ball, e.g.

49 Woodworkin­g tool

50 Main point

51 Office sub

53 With the giant letter formed by the black squares immediatel­y above this answer, what the answers to the starred clues all literally have

54 Name shared by two wives of Henry VIII

55 Noisy

56 Words preceding “with my little eye”

58 $5 bill, slangily

61 Have bills due

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