NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Like the ocean’s ebb and flow

6 Words said at the front of an aisle 10 Babysitter’s handful 14 ___ it all (unaffected) 15 Giggle

16 Indian flatbread 17 Italian confection brand known for its gold foil wrappers 19 Composer Stravinsky 20 “Tiny” Dickens boy 21 Butterflies-to-be 22 Slangy command to someone arriving with a six-pack 23 2007 Alicia Keys album

25 Scatter like a flock of birds

27 Home, informally 29 Starts to remove, as screws

32 Hemmed and ___ 35 Underhanded move for an athlete?

37 “___ Dere” (jazz classic about a toddler’s many questions) 38 Notification

39 One serving punch? ... or, parsed differently, a hint to 12 squares in this puzzle

40 Transport back and forth

41 Way to go, in Paris 42 Dough

43 Stiff, as competition 44 Fall Out Boy, e.g. 46 Item split by pedants 48 Casual getaways 50 Southwestern sights 53 Loath (to) 55 Gaming novices

57 La ___, Bolivia 59 Friedrich who created a scale of hardness

60 Small dog originally bred for fox hunting 62 Soeur’s sibling 63 Drew on 64 Protein-building acid 65 Swimming competition

66 ___ Gerritsen, author of medical and crime thrillers

67 Seasons, in a way

DOWN

1 Only U.S. president also to serve as chief justice

2 Flag carrier airline of Spain

3 Campus quarters 4 Assert

5 Its spots are actually rosettes 6 Restaurant chain with a smile in its logo

7 Unleaded, so to speak

8 “Amen!”

9 Oracle

10 Intimate apparel in many lawyer puns 11 First men’s tennis player to reach 10 consecutive Grand Slam singles finals 12 Subject of study at CERN’S laboratory 13 Exhaust 18 13th-century Persian poet and mystic 22 Cutesy sound that may accompany a poke 24 Founder of heavy

metal’s Body Count 26 ___ Highness 28 Temporary embarrassment in a public competition, figuratively

30 Deal breaker?

31 Eyelid woe 32 Sprinter that’s a homophone of 46-Across

33 One mentioned in “Class Notes,” informally

34 Shout that may accompany many arms waving

36 Rocker Rose

39 ___ fide

40 Much of Finland’s

wilderness 42 Nutmeg’s “sister

spice”

43 Parties that become naps when their first letter is changed to an “s”

45 ___ hound 47 Dinosaur

DNA source in “Jurassic Park” 49 Sensitive spots 51 When many

hibernations end 52 Extremely virtuous

sort

53 Radio toggle 54 Suffix with omni56 “What are the ___?” 58 Two-thirds of 100 60 Start of an objection 61 Bombeck who wrote “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”