CELEBRITY CROSSWORD

No. 0110

This puzzle is a collaboration by the basketball-loving senator Joe Donnelly of Indiana, working together with longtime crossword con- tributor Michael S. (Mickey) Maurer, the owner of the Indianapolis Business Journal. This is Mickey’s 25th crossword for The Times.

More information about the making of today’s puzzle appears in the Times’s daily crossword column (nytimes.com/column/wordplay).

ACROSS

1 Exchange of words 7 Smart farm animal? 14 Chevrolet model 15 Warning during a heist? 16 Washes against, as the shore 17 In baroque fashion 18 Gutterball?

20 Afternoon social 21 Pigeon-___ 22 Filler ads, in brief 24 Korean border area, for short 27 Sinus doc 28 Yukon or Sierra 30 Opening word at many a conference 33 Eric of old CBS News 36 Flipped (through) 37 Dinner at the end of Ramadan? 39 Where Socrates lived 42 Artists’ oil sources 46 Like Times Square on New Year’s Eve 48 Diet of Jack Sprat’s wife 49 “Doesn’t excite me” 50 Spanish uncle 51 Elite team member 53 Bowery boozer 54 “The Spy Who Loved Me” org. 57 Rug store promotion? 60 Pacifies 63 Establish 64 Something bleeped out for television? 65 Successful batter 66 Knocked over 67 Think about only one thing

DOWN

1 Works with pupils? 2 “No one’s with me” 3 Digital media player that’s “big” in New York City? 4 Operated on, as the eyes 5 Beauty product line with the slogan “Ageless” 6 Cat, to Catarina 7 Site of a 1955 “Pact” 8 Comfort ___ 9 32-card card game 10 Punta del ___ (Uruguayan resort) 11 Leading 12 Fa follower 13 Home on a farm 15 Noggin knocks 19 Footnote abbr. 23 Jennifer Lopez title role 25 ___ Tussaud: Abbr. 26 The end of the British monarchy? 28 Thou 29 Things babies make 31 ___ of one’s worries 32 One might say “Happy Birthday” 34 Not many 35 Two-bagger: Abbr. 38 Part of N.R.A. 39 SAT alternative 40 Numerical prefix 41 Has a one-night stand, say 43 Abu Dhabi, for one 44 Signifies 45 An ejected player might be sent to them 47 Protect against the other team scoring 52 The end of the British monarchy? 53 Sharpens

55 More than a sip 56 Spalding or Voit product 58 Bounce off the wall 59 Chicago daily, informally

60 Back, on a ship 61 Great Lakes’ ___ Canals 62 Bestow, to Burns