The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Weak hit

6 Big hit

11 Speak disrespectfully

to

15 Hindi for “palace” 16 Mischievous fairy 17 “___ Homo”

(Nietzsche book) 18 Worker designation coined by Upton Sinclair

20 Key that’s never used

alone: Abbr.

21 Sign of a packed house 22 “Confound it!” 23 Disney mermaid 24 Traditional folk song played by British and Australian ice cream trucks

28 Devoid of pleasure 32 French trick-taking

game

33 Really bothered 34 Doughnut shapes 35 Get ready

38 Envy source in Genesis 37 that hints at 18-, 24-, 49-and 58-Across 42 Steve with eight

N.B.A. championships 43 They’re placed in locks 44 Signs of saints

45 Cry for help

47 Most likely to preen 49 Upside, when down 52 Characteristic 53 “Understood” 54 “The Problem With ___” (documentary related to “The Simpsons”)

57 Letter after theta 58 Some sushi menu fish 62 Tech review site 63 Like prunes vis-à-vis

plums

64 Nonstudio film 65 Sedgwick of “The

Closer”

66 “The Lorax” author 67 Stun gun

DOWN

1 X1, M2 and i3 2 Cowardly Lion portray

er

3 Lima’s home 4 Nondairy milk option 5 Promise that one will 6 Mushrooms produce

them

7 Children’s author who wrote “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day”

8 Rose of Guns N’ Roses 9 “Cheap Thrills” singer,

2016

10 That ship

11 Scheme

12 Important part 13 Rocky debris

14 What sex does, they

say

19 Train units

23 ___ Lingus 25 Highlighter shades 26 Prognosticate with a

crystal ball

27 Secular

28 Plug receptacle 29 First Native American tribe to meet with Lewis and Clark 30 After quite some time 31 Verdi opera originally titled “Amore e Morte” (“Love and Death”)

34 Foot bones 36 Cherubic god

37 “You there!” 39 Author Jonathan

Safran ___

40 Rough up

41 Line when you’re late

to the punch line 46 Dog doc

47 Features of some bike

helmets

48 Freshly

49 Carrot’s counterpart 50 Complaining about social media on Facebook, say 51 Frasier’s brother on

“Frasier”

54 Gives a hand

55 Ballet bend 56 Employer

58 R.B.’S stat

59 Before, to Shake

speare

60 Simu ___, star of “Shang- Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”

61 Santa ___, Calif.