NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Zeroes, in soccer 5 Comedic takedown 10 Includes

13 Peak of revelation? 14 Happen next 15 Lead-in to -cide 16 *A little bit of everything

18 Org. whose initials omit its “E” (for “Explosives”) 19 Lousy (with) 20 Instrument with a bell

21 First Muslim Nobel Laureate (1978) 23 Character with a famous opening line?

25 Resolve

26 Exposes personal information about online, informally 27 Cultured dessert option

30 Former Yankee nickname

31 Crown, in Persian 33 *1957 hit by the Edsels with a nonsense title 35 Depot: Abbr. 38 Indian spice mixes 40 Cue preceder 41 *”Eventually ...” 43 Casual rejection 45 So

46 Adolph who purchased

The New York Times in 1896 48 Potentially offensive, say 52 Prepare for a kiss, perhaps 54 Home of some of the best drivers in No. America 56 Actress Juliette 57 Middling 59 Risk-taker’s mantra,

in brief

60 Hoppy inits. 61 Upside-down parts of a roller coaster ride — represented twice in the answer to each of this puzzle’s starred clues

64 Cause of some

head-scratching 65 “You shouldn’t

have!”

66 Randy looks 67 Appreciated, as a

joke

68 Overly involved 69 Campus health and

safety org.

DOWN

1 Ex ___ (from nothing: Lat.)

2 Up the creek

3 “Past post” wager at the track, e.g. 4 One-named singer with the 2016 #1 hit “Cheap Thrills” 5 Winged mammal with rust-colored fur

6 Not snookered by 7 Arthur with a statue on Richmond’s Monument Avenue 8 Appeal, as for peace 9 Like the responses of “yes” or “no” 10 Journey of the mind 11 Have no

co-conspirators 12 Gradual transition,

in art

13 Very valuable violin,

informally

17 Bean or noodle 22 Marginally

24 “Me, too!” 25 Brotherly greeting 28 Depression

precursor

29 ___ Harbour, Fla. 32 Cured Spanish

meat

34 Sitting meditation

pose

35 Sign of an injury,

maybe

36 Artoo’s partner 37 Measure of energy savings, as when the meter runs in reverse

39 1/3,600th of a deg. 42 Literature Nobelist

Morrison 44 Extra-sweaty

meditative exercise 47 Kind of sense 49 Like 20, for Little

League

50 Like wood prepped

for papermaking 51 Sects’ symbol? 53 Subject covered in a

madrasa

55 Possible hurdle for getting a master’s, for short

57 Gets hard to see through, in a way, with “up”

58 Does impressions of 62 Need to pay 63 L.A.P.D. head?