The New York Times Crossword

No. 0414

ACROSS

1 Tour de France leg

6 Showbiz grand slam

10 Potential con

14 Keen

15 Kin of King Kong

17 Homer’s self-satisfied assertion?

19 Aurora’s counterpart

20 Multinational insurance inits.

21 Kind of nut

22 Feasts, e.g.

25 Pours from one container to another

29 Bums, for example?

31 Court org.

33 Spanish article

34 Bug that no one likes

35 Yam source, historically?

40 Québec street

41 Egg: Prefix

42 Some raw materials

43 Place to find a comet?

48 Does the watusi, say

49 Laundry leftover

53 Steps on a scale?

54 That there

55 Sweetheart

56 Thoroughly … or a hint for parsing some lowercase letters in four of this puzzle’s clues

62 Sensed without being sure

63 “Woo-hoo!”

64 Arabian port

65 Critical time

66 It may come in shells

DOWN

1 Waste line

2 Lake in the Sierra Nevada

3 Sounding shocked

4 Grok

5 Jazz Age, e.g.

6 Self-seeker

7 Subject of rationing in the old English navy

8 Work started by London’s Philological Soc.

9 Wood shop tool

10 Discriminatory compensation practice

11 Water monitoring grp.

12 Band with the 4x platinum albums “Out of Time” and “Monster”

13 Pitchfork-shaped letter

16 Affect emotionally

18 Cat, in Córdoba 23 Bubbly source 24 Peruse

25 [Correct!]

26 Like some checking accounts

27 Poker snafus 28 Name that’s an alphabetic trio 30 Caesar dressing? 31 Shark’s racket 32 Pickle unit

36 Certain facial decoration 37 Currier and ___ 38 Feature of many a Druid’s robe

39 Sea eagles

40 Onetime inits. on the Supreme Court

44 King of Saudi Arabia beginning in 2015

45 Hide away

46 Like a wide grin

47 Info on a security badge, for short

50 Falls into line

51 Diamond figure

52 Home country of the two-time Olympic marathon winner Eliud Kipchoge

54 Facility often referred to by its first letter

56 Mortgage org.

57 “Sweet!”

58 It’s an honor

59 Derrière

60 Drench

61 “J to ___ L-O! The Remixes” (2002 album)