NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Ready to explode 9 Mechanical calculator pioneer 15 Mesmerize
16 Do high-level banking? 17 Exquisitely delicate 18 Disorganized group
19 Set off
20 Got room service, say 22 Stripling
23 Greek goddess of witchcraft and the underworld
26 Smooth talker’s quality 28 Possible reply to someone’s tactful remark
31 Wild grp.
32 “Venus favors the bold” writer
33 Jack of “Dragnet”
36 Travel aimlessly
37 Cat known as a Shirazi in the Mideast
41 Stand’s opposite … or a bad thing to do on the stand 42 Ruckus
44 Humorist Bombeck
45 Just make, with “out”
46 Be really bothered by 51 Dance music subgenre 53 Opposite of kindness
54 Ad ___
55 Up next
58 ___ perpetuum (let it be everlasting: Lat.)
59 Any of four punk rock bandmates
61 Ruble : Russian :: kuna : ___ 64 Goes around 65 Newspaper photo technique 66 Antarctica, for one
67 Image that’s very pleasing to look at
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1 Hallucinate
2 Showy ballet leap 3 Philosophical issues that may be debated
4 Mine shaft borer
5 Snarky laugh syllable
6 Suffix with brilliant
7 Awarder of billions in sports scholarships, in brief
8 Lucre
9 Outcast
10 Classic Studebaker
11 Twin, to the other twin
12 What 90% of American households had in 2010 — but fewer have today 13 Book of legends
14 English industrial city described by Dickens as “an odious place” 21 Ratings org.
24 Pontiac Trans Am option
25 Water diverter 27 L.A.-to-Fresno direction
29 Cassis cocktail
30 Car that’s an anagram of 14-Down 34 Sight on school grounds
35 A little extra for personal spending 38 E.U. member: Abbr.
39 City in the Midwest’s Story County 40 California tour locale
43 Mythical bird
47 One getting hit after hit?
48 Polar explorer Shackleton 49 Swillbelly
50 One-named folk singer
51 Was off
52 Be off
56 Great desire
57 Request intervention
60 Its first part is called a strophe 62 Estadio exclamation
63 Houston is in it, but Dallas isn’t, briefly