The New York Times Crossword

Answers below

ACROSS

1 Culture setters? 5 14-Across subfield 10 Spill the beans 14 B-school subject

15 “___ of wisdom” (“Dalai Lama,” in translation)

16 Protagonist who would “just as soon kiss a Wookiee”

17 Modern reimagining of a Robert Frost classic, part 1

20 Loses a lap? 21 Denigrates

22 Security camera letters

24 Things that Harvard no longer requires 25 Reimagining, part 2 32 Lo-o-o-ong time 33 Layered rock

34 ___ Africa (nickname of singer/activist Miriam Makeba)

35 Bit

37 Like the fruits durian and mangosteen 39 Impudent person 40 Rarely the winner in a nature documentary 41 What a clutch lacks 43 Certain turkey 44 Reimagining, part 3 48 Study, with “over”

49 Untimely?

50 Bird in an early warning system

53 Waste’s way away

56 End of the reimagining 61 Design deet

62 Like a twangy voice 63 Traditional knowledge 64 “Codswallop!”

65 Key material

66 Rapper ___ Gravy

DOWN

1 String of islands? 2 Exclamation from Bill the Cat

3 ___ mot

4 Some barnyard sounds 5 Makes shorter, in a way

6 Long

7 Org. chart figures

8 ___ Tafari

9 Sooner or later

10 Opens up, in a way

11 Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, astrologically 12 Help around the House 13 Lowest of the low? 18 Subject of the mnemonic “Divorced, Beheaded, Died. Divorced, Beheaded, Survived” in

Broadway’s “Six” 19 Featuring

22 Some church assemblies

23 Athlete who snaps

24 Features of a dirty campaign

25 Andante and largo 26 Seeing sound?

27 Get into it, rustically 28 High-class

29 Go off on

30 Actor J. B. of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” 31 Message on a cake in “Alice in Wonderland” 36 Pirate costume staple 38 Lil ___ X

42 Like clothes in a hamper

45 Variety

46 Sampler suggestion 47 “Fat chance!”

50 Throw

51 Prime Cuts brand 52 Brushoffs

53 Meh

54 Novelist Jennifer 55 Cunning

57 Smidge

58 Word often shortened to its last letter by texters

59 Vessel with a tap 60 Throw