The New York Times Crossword

By Blake Slonecker

ACROSS

1 1964 title role for

Anthony Quinn

6 Where to do one’s

bidding, maybe

10 Not that

14 Like more than half of the earth’s population

15 Some fancywork

16 “The ___ of the

Ancient Mariner”

17 Suddenly cut off all communication with … but do so nicely?

19 Great Plains

people

20 Leave full

21 Something that may be up one’s sleeve

22 Jokester

23 Cordial

shipbuilders?

27 Rude rejoinder popularized by the Fonz of 1970s TV

30 For real

31 Like cheering

audiences

32 Something up

one’s sleeve?

33 Classroom

projectile

35 Pens a seafaring

tale?

40 ___ Paradise, narrator of “On the Road”

41 X a box, say 42 Superman’s baby

name

43 Flap of skin hanging from a bovine’s neck

46 Fence-sitter’s

question

48 Sacramental

friars?

50 Oxford and Surrey

in “Richard III”

51 Novelist

Chang-___ Lee

52 Tooth trouble

56 Con Ed, e.g.: Abbr.

57 “It’s a plan” … and what might be said of 17-, 23-, 35and 48-Across

60 In the public eye

61 Let go

62 Marathoning

powerhouse

63 Phonetic initialism along Canadian roadways

64 Nosegay

65 Black tea region

DOWN

1 Sharply turns back the other way

2 Worker welfare

grp.

3 Run ___

4 Start of a paint job

5 Myrmecologist’s

specimen

6 Draw out

7 6-0 set, in tennis

lingo

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8 Bavarian “Bah!”

9 So far

10 Horse’s watering

spot

11 What a marathoner may do around mile 20

12 Cry from one

who’s fuming

13 Oozes

18 Shankar at

Woodstock

22 Prefix with gender

24 As to

25 Radio station on

TV

26 Canning tomato

27 Maxims

28 Lightens up?

29 Travel kit filler

32 Back on a cruise

34 Kind of counter in

a supermarket

36 Take off

37 Dirt-digging

research, for short

38 Heath bar

shelfmate

39 Many links

44 “Uh … huh-uh”

45 Scale units: Abbr.

46 Lemony quaff

47 Obey

48 Second rule of

waste reduction

49 Makes even

53 Swindles

54 Georgetown

athlete

55 North Holland

cheese town

57 Syrupy stuff

58 Good Grips

kitchen brand

59 Rocksteady

precursor