The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Like the ocean’s

ebb and flow

6 Words said at the

front of an aisle 10 Babysitter’s

handful

14 ___ it all

(unaffected)

15 Giggle

16 Indian flatbread 17 Italian confection brand known for its gold foil wrappers

19 Composer

Stravinsky

20 “Tiny” Dickens

boy

21 Butterflies-to-be 22 Slangy command to someone arriving with a six-pack

23 2007 Alicia Keys

album

25 Scatter like a

flock of birds

27 Home, informally

29 Starts to remove,

as screws

32 Hemmed and ___ 35 Underhanded move for an athlete?

37 “___ Dere” (jazz classic about a toddler’s many questions)

38 Notification

39 One serving punch? ... or, parsed differently, a hint to 12 squares in this puzzle

40 Transport back

and forth

41 Way to go, in

Paris

42 Dough

43 Stiff, as

competition

44 Fall Out Boy, e.g. 46 Item split by

pedants

48 Casual getaways 50 Southwestern

sights

53 Loath (to)

55 Gaming novices 57 La ___, Bolivia

59 Friedrich who created a scale

of hardness

60 Small dog originally bred for fox hunting

62 Soeur’s sibling

63 Drew on

64 Protein-building

acid

65 Swimming

competition

66 ___ Gerritsen,

author of medical and crime thrillers 67 Seasons, in a way

DOWN

1 Only U.S. president also to serve as chief justice

2 Flag carrier airline of Spain

3 Campus quarters

4 Assert

5 Its spots are

actually rosettes

6 Restaurant chain with a smile in its logo

7 Unleaded, so to

speak 8 “Amen!”

9 Oracle

10 Intimate apparel in many lawyer puns

11 First men’s tennis player to reach 10 consecutive

Grand Slam singles finals

12 13 Subject study Exhaust laboratory at of CERN’s

18 13th-century Persian mystic poet and 22 Cutesy sound that may accompany a poke 24 Founder of heavy metal’s Body

Count

26 ___ Highness 28 Temporary embarrassment

in a public competition, figuratively 30 Deal breaker? 31 Eyelid woe

32 Sprinter that’s a homophone of 46-Across

33 One mentioned in “Class Notes,” informally

34 Shout that may accompany many arms waving

36 Rocker Rose

39 ___ fide

40 Much of Finland’s

wilderness

42 Nutmeg’s “sister

spice”

43 Parties that become naps when their first letter is changed to an “s”

45 ___ hound*

47 Dinosaur DNA source in “Jurassic Park”

49 Sensitive spots

51 When many hibernations end

52 Extremely virtuous sort

53 Radio toggle

54 Suffix with omni

56 “What are the ___?”

58 Two-thirds of 100

60 Start of an objection

61 Bombeck who wrote “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”