The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Hatchling
6 Line crosser, of a sort
10 Component of a cellphone bill
14 World capital that’s home to the Temple of Literature, built in 1070
15 Show up
16 Blue-violet shade
17 Crime investigated by an insurance company
18 “Strike three!” or “Yer out!”?
20 Sit (down) heavily
21 Noisy shouting
22 Way to catch a conger?
24 Alley prowler
29 It’s used in soapmaking
30 Input
33 One of four in the human heart
34 Mo. with a holiday on its final day
35 Loser at Waterloo
37 The main characters of “Brokeback Mountain,” e.g.?
41 Resisting
42 Uno y uno
43 Apple centers
44 “Darn it!”
46 When the Kentucky Derby is held
49 Breaks things off
51 Drinking buddy?
53 Fixate 56 Spot
57 Gross messages?
61 “_ _ _ World” (“Sesame Street” segment)
62 Princess who says “You’re my only hope” in a hologram
63 Number of M.V.P. awards won by Wayne Gretzky
64 Kind of beer … or a multi-word hint to 18-, 22-, 37-, 51and 57-Across
65 Rich soil
66 Temperance proponents
67 Slyly spiteful
DOWN
1 Place of worship
2 Road hog?
3 Foot support 4 Appropriate
5 Clan 6 Bulk up, as muscles
7 Out-of-it state
8 Toggle on a clock
9 Make drunk, quaintly
10 Run out of juice
11 “___ You My Mother?” (children’s book)
12 Personal quirk
13 “Green,” “black” or “white” tree
19 Cheese in an Italian sub
21 “I refuse to believe that!”
23 Economic downturn
25 Places to find food courts and kiosks
26 Miss ___, famed TV psychic
27 Profess
28 Till compartment
31 Furnish with money
32 Mil. branch of the U.K.
34 Fiona and Shrek, for two
36 Cycles
37 Speed
38 Door-to-door sales company
39 Homework lover, say
40 Helpful info for a curbside pickup, briefly
45 Society at large, with “the”
46 Big, bushy-tailed squirrel
47 Went to a restaurant
48 Like some breads and beers
50 Long-term U.S. security
52 European country with a cross on its flag
54 Tend to the sauce, say
55 “___, meeny, miney, mo …”
57 “___ say!” 58 Bus. driver?
59 Sportage automaker
60 Crosp item grown in Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”
61 Key that exits fullscreen video