The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Tour de France leg 6 Showbiz grand slam 10 Potential con

14 Keen

15 Kin of King Kong 17 Homer’s self- satisfied

assertion?

19 Aurora’s counterpart 20 Multinational insur

ance inits.

21 Kind of nut

22 Feasts, e.g.

25 Pours from one con

tainer to another 29 Bums, for example?

31 Court org.

33 Spanish article

34 Bug that no one likes 35 Yam source, historical

ly?

40 Québec street

41 Egg: Prefix

42 Some raw materials

43 Place to find a comet? 48 Does the watusi, say 49 Laundry leftover

53 Steps on a scale? 54 That there

55 Sweetheart 56 Thoroughly & or a hint for parsing some lowercase letters in four of this puzzle’s clues 62 Sensed without being

sure

63 “Woo-hoo!” 64 Arabian port

65 Critical time

66 It may come in shells

DOWN

1 Waste line

2 Lake in the Sierra

Nevada

3 Sounding shocked 4 Grok

5 Jazz Age, e.g.

6 Self- seeker

7 Subject of rationing in

the old English navy 8 Work started by Lon

don’s Philological Soc. 9 Wood shop tool 10 Discriminatory com

pensation practice 11 Water monitoring grp. 12 Band with the 4x platinum albums “Out of Time” and “Monster”

13 Pitchfork- shaped letter

16 Affect emotionally 18 Cat, in Córdoba 23 Bubbly source 24 Peruse

25 [Correct!]

26 Like some checking

accounts

27 Poker snafus 28 Name that’s an alpha

betic trio

30 Caesar dressing?

31 Shark’s racket 32 Pickle unit

36 Certain facial decora

tion

37 Currier and ___ 38 Feature of many a

Druid’s robe

39 Sea eagles

40 Onetime inits. on the

Supreme Court

44 King of Saudi Arabia

beginning in 2015 45 Hide away

46 Like a wide grin

47 Info on a security

badge, for short 50 Falls into line

51 Diamond figure 52 Home country of the two-time Olympic marathon winner Eliud Kipchoge 54 Facility often referred

to by its first letter 56 Mortgage org.

57 “Sweet!”

58 It’s an honor

59 Derrière

60 Drench

61 “J to ___ L- O! The Remixes” (2002 album)