The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Cocktail often garnished with a lemon twist

9 Israeli port mentioned

in the Bible

14 Paul McCartney wrote

one about Liverpool 15 1898 chemistry discovery

16 Show promise 17 Square

18 More than impressed 19 Execrate

21 Only three-letter word in Scrabble that requires both blank tiles 22 Strategy game with

disks

25 Basic cleaner

26 Chess maneuver with

a French name

30 Host

32 Herb often used with

potatoes

33 Half brother of Tom

Sawyer

34 City north of Baghdad 36 Palm that produces

berries

37 Turned up

40 Give a powerful impression of

41 1968 swimming gold

medalist Debbie

43 ___ Henry Hoover,

former first lady 44 “The Last Don” author 45 “I forgot what I’m supposed to say here!”

46 It always goes to hell 48 Co. behind the podcast “The Daily” 49 Math subj.

51 Parts of a Facebook

feed

52 First name at Woodstock

53 George who composed “Give My Regards to Broadway” 58 Celebrate with

sprightly dancing 60 Study for the bar? 63 Soak

64 Members of the lute

family

65 Eponym in a candy

store

66 Reserve

DOWN

1 Home to Bactrian

camels

2 ___ horse

3 Zilch

4 Fretful thing to be in 5 Turns down

6 Cause of an explosion 7 Zilch

8 Apple variety

9 Faith that preaches nonviolence to all living creatures Answers below 10 ___ Lovelace, computing pioneer who was the daughter of Lord Byron

11 Ends weakly 12 Hairless creature in a

nursery rhyme

13 Floor

15 Engine stats

20 “The proper task of

life,” per Nietzsche 23 Brand on the Alaska

Highway

24 Fruitless

26 Red-cased import 27 “Good going!” 28 Avoid taking unnecessary risks 29 Down-to-earth type? 31 Air show highlights 35 16th-century pope who owned a pet elephant

38 Massive explosion 39 Face-off

42 Closing number of a

musical, often 46 Accelerate

47 “Great taste since

1905” sloganeer 48 Depths of despair 50 Boil over

54 Accented cheers 55 Hindu festival of colors

56 Venerable

57 Where Harley-Davidson is HOG

59 French menu word 61 Squeak (by)

62 Bit of hardware