The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Fake news source?

5 ___ lab (hosp. location for stent placements)

9 “American Psycho” novelist

14 To whom Mama Cocha

was goddess of the sea

15 Fantasy foe

16 Smallest South Pacific

nation

17 Rise in the air

18 “Veep” actress Duvall

19 Biblical mount

20 Pilates target

21 Establishment offering tom yum soup or pad woon sen noodles

23 Most immediate

25 GPS options: Abbr.

26 Yellow-flowered

medicinal plant

27 Goes toe to toe (with)

29 Can alternative

32 Fantasy foe

34 “___ said …”

35 Certain entry

requirement

36 Acclaimed HBO comedy series whose creator stars as himself

41 Unwanted

responsibility

42 Strand in a cell

43 Dallas pro

44 Relentlessly follow

45 Vodka brand,

informally

47 Leisurely paces 51 Wheels on a base

52 Recover from a bender

54 Risky baseball strategy that’s indicated four times in this puzzle?

58 Stand-up

comedian Wong

59 Boots

60 Within reach

61 Body image?

62 Work at St. Peter’s

Basilica

63 Ending with leather or

towel

64 Body part that’s an

anagram of 11-Down

65 This is for suckers

66 One of 28 in a

Monopoly box

67 Negroni garnish

DOWN

1 The flowers in Amy Lowell’s “Your great puffs of flowers / Are everywhere in this my New England”

2 Certain to happen

3 Pursues, as a hunch

4 Good name for a marine biologist?

5 Runs together, in a way

6 Tips for shoemakers

7 ___ leches (Latin American cake)

8 Summer eruption

9 Comes after

10 Haunts

11 Roman goddess who’s an anagram of 64-Across

12 Modern-day site of

ancient Persepolis

13 Word with power or

strong

21 Lachrymose

22 Many a fancy hotel

lobby

24 Self-important types

28 Kind of guidance

29 Soccer great Hamm

30 Biblical mount

31 Agricultural item that Nigeria produces more of than the rest of the world combined

33 Nevada senator

Catherine ___ Masto

35 Joie de ___

36 The fish in fish and

chips, commonly

37 Cry at a card table

38 It’s cut by a dancer

39 Still sealed

40 Did nothing

45 School board?

46 Falls behind

48 Big competitor of

Microsoft and IBM

49 University with a

pelican mascot

50 Kind of column

51 Compact Volkswagen

53 Sculled, e.g.

54 Dips in gravy

55 Give up

56 End-___

57 Politico Buttigieg

61 Condiment for a burger