The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Commonly sprained joint
6 Smurf with a white beard
10 Sounds when settling into a hot bath
14 Good name for a dyslexic neurosurgeon?
15 Each
16 Four Corners state
17 Clothing store event to get rid of excess merchandise
19 Sitarist Shankar
20 French writer who refused the 1964 Nobel Prize in literature
21 Evita of “Evita”
22 Government agency charged with protecting the first family
24 Tolerate
26 Prefix with -phyte
27 Participate in a prizefight
28 Nursery rhyme character who met a pieman
36 Old Russian autocrat
38 Prank
39 Steakhouse specification
40 In the near future
43 Word before sells or cells
44 Exclamation on “The Simpsons”
45 Admission of defeat
47 Brooke Shields sitcom set at a trendy magazine
54 “Hurray!” or “Olé!”
55 Really small, informally
56 Destruction
57 Nightclub singer who was given the nickname “Buddha” by Frank Sinatra
61 Strong desire
62 ___ Stanley Gardner of detective fiction
63 Christmas carols
64 Hot Chocolate
or Vanilla Fudge
65 Professional org.
66 Plumber’s device
DOWN
1 “Washboard” muscles
2 Org. opposed by Everytown for Gun Safety
3 North Korean leader
4 Expired, as a membership
5 Intertwines
6 Cut’s partner in word processing
7 Separately
8 Firehouse fixtures
9 Orangutan, for one
10 Bye at the French Open?
11 Company that created Pong
12 Destruction
13 Bootblack’s job
18 Drop the ball
21 Air Force One passenger: abbr.
22 Schoolteacher’s wake-up time, perhaps
23 First month of el año
24 Basic facts
25 Nincompoop
29 Billionaire Carl
30 Last full month of spring
31 Second addendum to a letter, for short
32 Summer zodiac sign
33 One who works with bricks
34 Bonanza discoveries
35 Barbershop call
37 Blushed or flushed
41 Active person
42 Popular Japanese cars
46 Applies, as a thick coat of paint
47 Second-stringer
48 Communications officer on the Enterprise
49 Condescend (to)
50 Distance units in astron.
51 Shouts
52 Commonest craps roll
53 Prefix with cellular
57 Where the buoys are
58 Affirmative vote
59 Jan. honoree
60 NNW’s opposite