The New York Times
ACROSS
1 Having surmounted
5 Semicircular room
9 Poor box contents
13 Plea sure seeker
14 Respectable
15 Obtain
16 Ad icon since 1914
19 Acupressure technique
20 Tree sacred to Druids
22 Regular at Kelseys Bar, on TV
25 Crows nest?
28 Rebel yell
29 One may hold the mayo
32 Mend
33 "Hurry!"
34 It could easily go up
36 Candied side dish
37 Oswald Cobblepots nom de crime
38 Boxers hand
41 Prig
43 Backsplash component
44 "The Female Eunuch" author
46 Bachs "Partita No. 6 ___ Minor"
47 Cézanne colleague
48 Recipient of a 1937 wooden Oscar
50 Contains
51 ___ Paradise, protagonist of "On the Road"
52 Impatient
56 What 16-and 37-Across and 11-and 24-Down were all known to do
62 Antler feature
63 Roast setting
64 Big ___ Conference
65 Reason to say "Now what do we do?"
66 Being, to Brutus
67 First batter to hit a home run against every Major League Baseball team
DOWN
1 Half a huge cost?
2 Unduly
3 Lords Prayer start
4 Place to pick up a puppy
5 Musical with the song "Easy Street"
6 Arno city
7 Ignore the lyrics?
8 Snigglers take
9 Bol. Neighbor
10 Ring around the collar?
11 Caretaker for the Banks house hold
12 Ill will
17 Allegheny + Monongahela
18 Famous nine-year-old king
21 Itty-bitty
22 Vacationing
23 Tabula description
24 Churchill pre decessor
26 Have coming
27 Fraternity chapter
29 Bottled spirit
30 Element whose name roughly means "lazy"
31 Do something else with
34 Charge
35 Undo a lead
37 Untarnished
39 Out of harms way
40 Moistens
42 Half a huge cost?
43 Dishevels
44 Literary monogram
45 Isnt stoic
47 Grimace
49 Passing obstruction?
50 Silver, for one
53 Art class figure
54 Opening day?
55 Everglades denizen
57 Genetics abbr.
58 ___ U.S. Pat. Off.
59 Seven-faced doctor of film
60 Ninny
61 RR bldg.
by Henry Hook
ACROSS
1 Country store?
6 Wrench (from)
10 Jeanne ___
14 Father, Son and Holy Ghost
15 Feminine suffix
16 Even, to Yves
17 Constructing things
19 Dont
20 Couples cruise vessel?
21 50s two-seaters
23 Custom
25 Some flames
30 Piccadilly Circus statue
31 Annoyance, in British slang
32 Streamlined
34 Cheer start
37 Theme of this puzzle, as hinted at by 17-, 23-, 45-and 59-Across
40 Hard-rock filler
41 Sikorsky and Stravinsky
42 Citizen of Shiraz
43 Hosiery hue
44 Stripped
45 1962 #1 hit by the Shirelles
51 Stands ready for
52 Its made up of columns
58 Part of a camp schedule
59 Means of remote monitoring
61 Hang ___
62 ". . . ___ saw Elba"
63 Slanted
64 Org.
65 Nature
66 With 46-Down, Ohio States ___ Memorial Stadium
DOWN
1 Mailing label abbr.
2 String ___
3 Director Wertmuller
4 Old cross
5 Dates
6 Prefix with fluoride
7 Edible mushroom
8 In what ever quantity
9 Museum specialist
10 Ranch wear
11 Outdoor market
12 Corp. bud get item
13 Like some calls
18 Snitch
22 Burglarized
24 Oglers looks
25 Californians vacation destination, maybe
26 Sources of hurt feelings
27 Turkish title
28 Spigot site
29 Lobby
32 Rub, rub, rub
33 Choreographer Lubovitch
34 Get into some hot water?
35 Actress Skye
36 Start of many an accident
38 Departures
39 Burlesque show wear
43 Subject of a 1940 biopic starring Spencer Tracy
45 It was split into two parts by the 1899 Treaty of Berlin
46 See 66-Across
47 Stays
48 Charles ___, "Gaslight" star, 1944
49 Footnote abbr.
50 House call?
53 Key of Pachelbels Canon: Abbr.
54 Townshend of the Who
55 Actress Meyers and others
56 Square dance partners
57 City near Padua
60 Anti anti
by Elizabeth C. Gorski
ACROSS
1 Learns
8 1958 sci-fi classic starring Steve McQueen
15 Jose Cuervo, for one
16 ___
17 Director Ivan
18 Most monstrous
19 Taylor, Wilson or Harding
20 Rear-___
22 Book in the Book of Mormon
23 "Thats all I ___"
24 Rice dish
27 Place for a house plant
30 Column of boxes on a questionnaire
31 Defendants, legally
34 Prize
37 ___
39 Supporters of the arts
40 Plague
41 Brute
42 ___
43 Altoids holder
44 Saint of dancers
46 Once, in old times
47 Letters before gimels
48 "The Guiding Light" airer
50 Very
53 Jazzs Peterson
55 It may be said while crossing the fingers
58 1984 film with the tagline "Its 4 a.m., do you know where your car is?"
61 A deadly sin
63 Of tremendous fervor
64 ___
65 Holiday meals
66 Bun toppers
DOWN
1 Pivoting razor
2 Existed
3 1/64 of a checkerboard, maybe: Abbr.
4 So last year
5 Country singer with the 1997 triple platinum hit "How Do I Live"
6 Fill in the ___ (a hint to this puzzles theme)
7 Ocean liner?
8 "Oy, vey!" cause
9 Show of affection
10 Film developing order: Abbr.
11 Give a rundown
12 It may be on a property
13 Bone: It.
14 Red and black, perhaps
21 Flexible blade
23 Startle
25 Classic camera
26 Org.
27 Parade honoree, briefly
28 Tabriz native
29 Admit
30 04, 08 and others
31 Not so well done
32 Hwy. planners
33 Explanatory phrase
35 Dry white
36 Dark
38 St. ___ (common hospital name)
40 Class of 08 in 08, e.g.
42 Ornery sort
45 Risqué beachwear
47 Sauce
48 Venae ___ (major blood vessels)
49 Some fasteners
50 The sun, moon and stars
51 Toolbar heading
52 Boom
54 Famous Mama
55 What each completed pair of theme answers in this puzzle is
56 Frozen drink brand
57 Former first lady
59 "O patria ___" ("Aida" aria)
60 "So . . . ?"
62 Dietary std.
by Matt Ginsberg
ACROSS
1 Locks horns (with)
6 Not Rx
9 Phil who sang "Draft Dodger Rag"
13 *Party game
15 *1961 chart-topper for Ray Charles
17 Stems (from)
18 How trapeze artists perform
19 *Vie for votes
21 Announcement to passengers, for short
22 Taint
23 Rand who asked "Who is John Galt?"
24 Dolly, for one
27 You, to you, or me, to me
29 Baseball stat.
31 Where Wounded Knee is: Abbr.
32 Mrs. Dick Cheney
35 "Mother of all rivers"
37 *Get off to a quick start
40 Corrida chant
41 Hair net
42 Hockey great Jaromir
43 Swell place?
44 Exclusive
48 Star Wars, briefly
49 Fictional C.I.A. unit on "Alias"
51 Calif. setting
54 Escape ___
55 *Get it exactly
59 Vein locale
61 Classic Studebaker whose name means "forward" in Italian
62 *Shoot perfectly
63 Words missing from the answers to the eight starred clues
64 The usual amts.
65 Served, as time
66 Gym bag items
DOWN
1 Gets all ditzy
2 Capt. Sparrow, e.g.
3 Zooid
4 Laryngitis symptom
5 Tick off
6 Algerian port in "The Plague"
7 Morgue ID