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NY Times, Sat, May 07, 2016 by NYTimes

Across

  1. 1. Small, slim daggers
  2. 9. Apple variety
  3. 15. Single from Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A."
  4. 16. Major protest
  5. 17. Many a Harpo Marx joke
  6. 18. Extremely fast?
  7. 19. Dip ___ in
  8. 20. Get the lead out?
  9. 22. "Poor little" one in Coleridge's "To a Young Ass"
  10. 23. Automatic, for one
  11. 25. Like Egypt
  12. 26. Jerks
  13. 27. They're followed on message boards
  14. 30. "Hmm"
  15. 32. Writer who gave his name to an annual award
  16. 33. Many vacationers bring them home
  17. 34. Question before a personal update
  18. 40. Something depicted for goodness' sake?
  19. 41. With 48-Across, enters stealthily
  20. 42. One-knee plea
  21. 46. Entertains at bedtime
  22. 47. Color of McCartney's "Sgt. Pepper" uniform
  23. 48. See 41-Across
  24. 50. Belt line?
  25. 51. Sharp's opposite
  26. 52. Sharp's handful
  27. 54. Captain of fiction
  28. 57. Like corduroy
  29. 59. Cheese choice
  30. 61. As a replacement
  31. 62. Simplest sort of deal
  32. 63. Insistent retort
  33. 64. A good cure for it is sleep, per W. C. Fields

Down

  1. 1. Where Fermi studied
  2. 2. Cut out
  3. 3. Place to be avoided
  4. 4. Not learned
  5. 5. Like a boat's cockpit, usually
  6. 6. Drilling sites
  7. 7. Plays with emotions?
  8. 8. Rocker with the 1976 album "Live Bullet"
  9. 9. "I wish I had that"
  10. 10. On point
  11. 11. Common use for pipe cleaners
  12. 12. Like tea bags
  13. 13. Plunder
  14. 14. Words that may elicit a worried gulp
  15. 21. Show title shown on a license plate
  16. 24. Like much of the Everglades
  17. 27. Way up at a ski resort
  18. 28. Primary loser to J.F.K. in 1960
  19. 29. Longtime nickname in comics
  20. 31. Certain sandal
  21. 33. First word of Frost's "The Road Not Taken"
  22. 35. "Neapolitan Novels" author Ferrante
  23. 36. Pleasure principle
  24. 37. Frequent chant in 2008
  25. 38. Go for it, with "in"
  26. 39. Grp. doing private shows?
  27. 42. Home of the soccer team that FIFA named the Club of the Century
  28. 43. Mother-or-son Philippine president
  29. 44. Bit of gang warfare
  30. 45. Some wedding parties
  31. 46. Hall-of-Fame N.B.A. player known as "The Worm"
  32. 49. One of the singing Braxton sisters
  33. 53. Mtg.
  34. 55. Where Bambara is widely spoken
  35. 56. Fit for service
  36. 58. Experts in power: Abbr.
  37. 60. Symbol of charge density

This puzzle was published on Saturday, May 07, 2016 in the New York Times Crossword Puzzle. Edited by Will Shortz.

— NYTimes

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