The New York Times crossword puzzle

No. 0220

Across

1 Mail inits. since

1971

5 ___-Carlton

(hotel chain)

9 Lettuce or

cabbage

14 Small recess

15 Drill (into)

16 Hero of Narnia in C. S. Lewis novels

17 Evidence of a day at the beach

19 In a deadpan

manner

20 Spleen

21 Middle of a classic boast from Caesar

22 Spanish

girlfriend

23 "Phooey!"

25 Chocolate confection with a molten core 28 Partner of

"ceases"

31 "Science is like ___: Sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it": Richard Feynman

32 Cleric's title, for

short

33 Tiki bar drink

35 Part of a decent-sized plot

36 Effect of secondhand pot smoke

39 Uber-fan

41 Ted ___, author of the bestselling shortstory collection "Exhalation"

42 Make a mistake

43 "Well, lahdi-___"

45 Made an irreverently sarcastic comment

49 Flight of fancy

52 Crooner Mel who was called "The Velvet Fog"

53 Common sight along the Norwegian coast

54 Male admirer

57 Signature Obama achievement, in brief

58 Held on (to) 59 Description of 17-, 25-, 36and 49-Across, in different senses?

61 Where it's at

62 Afghan's place

63 Bottom of a

boat

64 Army squad

leaders: Abbr.

65 Rudely "welcome" the away team

66 "Toy Story"

boy

Down

1 Remove the

fastenings from

2 Evening party

3 Tools for

fireplaces

4 Winter item on a car's roof rack

5 Hank Aaron holds the M.L.B. record for these, for short (2,297)

6 Smidgen

7 Fishing net

8 Mindfulnessbased practice

9 Cop-turned-vigilante in a postapocalyptic film

10 Courtier who oversees Hamlet's duel with Laertes

11 Member of a powerful ruling elite

12 B-baller in California

13 "___ takers?"

18 Altima maker

22 "___ Maria"

24 Shakespeare's "___ of Athens"

26 "Given the way things appear ..."

27 12/24 or 12/31

29 Small songbird 30 Upper part of a Vandyke beard, informally

34 German "Geez!"

35 Belligerent, in British slang

36 Swiss founder of analytical psychology

37 Largest Chinese ethnic group

38 Like "three men" of nursery rhyme

39 Patch things up, say?

40 Unimportant

things

43 Funereal

compositions

44 Chip in

46 N.H.L. team with a mythological eponym

47 Presided over a

roast, say

48 Lethal

50 Dunkable

edible

51 Degrade

55 Nobelist

Wiesel

56 Miles

away

58 Big name in

pharmacies

59 One of Islam's Five Pillars

60 Inits. before a

nickname