The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Pedal effect on a guitar

5 “Shoot”

10 Chuck, e.g.

14 Larry’s housemate on “Curb Your Enthusiasm”

15 A toast

16 Hardly to be had

17 Designs

19 Humblebragger’s words

20 Parts of surround sound systems

21 Socks (away)

23 Winner of nine Grand

Slam (titles

24 Short turnaround?

26 Capital of 52-Down

29 Keister, in Leicester

30 Half of a sawbuck

31 Unprincipled

32 Exams for future J.D.s

34 Separate from all the others, say

35 Urgent care provider, in brief

38 Many P.S.A.s & or the four circled squares in this grid?

40 Lilliputian

41 Famous peanut grower

43 “Giant Brain” unveiled in (1946

45 Split

46 Revolutionary icon

47 Browns and stouts 51 1990s “S.N.L.” cast member

52 VW hatchback 53 Dazzled

54 Grind

56 Like some libertarians

58 Broadcast personality Kelly

60 One drawing lots?

62 Friends

63 Whole

64 Ciudad del ___, Paraguay

65 Informal meeting

66 Pool shot with lots of spin

67 Place to store things

DOWN

1 Michigan congresswoman Slotkin

2 Focal point

3 Some accommodations

4 Length of a short, maybe

5 Concerning 6 Mountain coverings?

7 “Kitchy-kitchy-___!”

8 Where a minister lives

9 Animated sister of princess Anna

10 “The Inbetweeners” or “Fawlty Towers”

11 Shamefully admits defeat

12 Miscalculate, say

13 “S.N.L.” head writer

from 1999 to 2006 18 Early platform for The Legend of Zelda, for short

22 Suburb of San Diego

25 Put under a microscope

27 Give five stars, say

28 Sheltered at sea

30 Longtime Packers QB Brett

31 Man’s name that sounds like two letters of the alphabet

33 Sweetener from a leaf extract

35 Shoe brand originating in Denmark

36 Kind of Ovaltine

37 Kodama, in Japanese mythology

39 Taking a break

42 Certain outer coating

44 Dental pointers?

48 Like an Oscars afterparty

49 Discarded computers and the like

50 Had a stimulating conversation?

52 See 26-Across

53 “How was ___ know?”

55 Pond film

57 A or B, but not Y or Z

58 “Mom” network

59 Shade

61 Some colas