The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 They may be switched while cycling 6 Shorthand pro 11 Crossword solver’s cry 14 Deity with 99 names 15 Raphael, Gabriel or Michael 17 Cradlin’ a Salinger protagonist? 19 Preserve, as ashes 20 Vodka brand, informally 21 “Footloose” star cookin’ a fresh batch of brownies? 26 “Need an ark? I Noah guy,” and others

27 Blond at the bar, say

28 Letters on a luxury handbag 29 Chips brand 31 Sentence … or something found in a sentence 33 Did so-so at school 34 The Great Emancipator sharin’ URLS on his blog?

40 Cover for illicit activity 41 “Right on!”

43 “I don’t want to hear the gory details” 46 ___-C.I.O. 49 Strands in a cell

50 Four-time Grammy winner India.___ 51 Bein’ in debt to a “Wedding Crashers” co-star? 54 Some burrowing mouselike rodents 56 One-point Scrabble draw 57 Massachusetts senator wagin’ conflict? 63 Houseplant that some think brings luck and prosperity

64 One in 1,000? 65 Beat it!

66 Bee teem? 67 Internet admin

DOWN

1 Cry of frustration 2 Chess rating system

3 ___ fours 4 Minute hands, essentially 5 Climb (up), as a pole 6 Related to religious rites 7 Sedative in a blowgun dart, informally

8 Old French coin 9 Org. for Ducks and Penguins 10 Bunglers

11 Get too old to qualify

12 “Over my dead body!”

13 Hugo-winning “Hothouse” author Brian 16 Particularly particular 18 Pencil remnants 21 Actress Dennings 22 Philosopher Zeno’s birthplace 23 Crow, but not magpie 24 “American ___” 25 “Moi? Never!” 30 Went on, as an errand 32 Gotham City supervillain in a cryogenic suit 33 Intl. standard used by many astrologers 35 Amount to

36 Our genus 37 Freshly 38 Roadside bombs, for short

39 One-billionth: Prefix

42 Solo in spaceflight? 43 “I need a hero!” 44 Computer language that sounds like a literary intro 45 Under the weather 46 “Ode to Joy,” for the European Union 47 Texter’s “I think” 48 New Hampshire state flowers 52 Bury

53 The “L” of Samuel L. Jackson 55 Declares

58 As an aside, in a text

59 The “E” of B.C.E. 60 Info in an apt. listing 61 Texter’s “I think” 62 Catch some Z’s