The New York Times Crossword

Answers below

ACROSS

1 Royal Catherine

5 All- day, in a way

9 Rides

13 Agave lookalike

14 Spring, for one

15 Fancy summer home

16 Grocery store worker on the days leading up to Thanksgiving?

19 Dress (up)

20 Cheesemaking town

21 Salty expanses

22 Incense residue

23 One who’s acting out?

24 Some trimmings

25 Pamphlets on how to use

marinara?

31 Lecherous sort

33 Beginning of time?

34 When doubled, mousebopping bunny in a children’s song

35 Sporty Pontiac

38 One with a tattoo of a

band’s name, say

41 Oxygen makes up only one-fifth of this on the earth

42 Gossip, slangily

44 Part of some musical

keys

45 Bookie?

50 Card game shout

51 Winners of a 1932

Australian “war”

52 Org. using millimeter

wave scanners

55 Inedible jelly on a buffet

table

58 49-Down’s city, familiarly

59 Shubert of Broadway’s

Shubert Theatre

60 Devices that help dentists monitor anesthesia?

63 En pointe

64 Its flag has “Allahu

Akbar” written 22 times

65 Repeated words in an

analogy

66 Common catch

67 Hunt and peck, say

68 Pronto

DOWN

1 It gets into hot water

2 Chorus section

3 Inauspicious beginning

4 Certain whistle-blower

5 Hardly basic

6 Personal friend in France

7 Something cephalopods control for camouflage

8 Units on a graduated cylinder: Abbr.

9 Fine point

10 ___-Seltzer

11 Campbell with the 1975 #1

hit “Rhinestone Cowboy”

12 2003 outbreak

15 Outspoken

17 Pelvis/patella connectors

18 Sticky ___ pudding

26 Author Rand

27 It’s set in a ring

28 Easy-peasy

29 Speckled

30 Maker of the first

portable music player

31 Guess

32 Grammy winner India.___

36 When both hands are up

37 Unit of RAM

39 Passes, but not with

flying colors

40 Shinzo ___, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister

43 Representative’s work

46 Powerful engines

47 Feature of many a belly

48 Angsty hip-hop subgenre

49 Prestigious university in

58-Across

53 Company whose mascots are sheep with numbers painted on them

54 Author whose titles often

feature two animals

55 One with an upturned

nose, so to speak

56 Common catch

57 CPR specialists

61 “Scram!”

62 Car once advertised with the slogan “The power to surprise”