CROSSWORD New York Times
ACROSS
1 Pathetic
4 Sound hoarse
8 1992 novel set in 1920s Harlem
12 Walk heavily
14 Concur with by repeating
15 Covered veranda often equipped with a ceiling fan
16 Exude, as confidence
17 Ergo
18 Take in or take on
19 1970 novel exploring racism's effect on a young girl's self-esteem
22 One who dies for a cause
23 Home for a queen
24 Modernizing prefix
27 Road curve
28 Like Taylor Swift's Shake It Off, key-wise
30 1981 novel about the interplay of privilege and poverty in a Caribbean romance
32 No later than
34 Deep-dish pizza chain, informally
35 1977 novel whose title references a lyrical Old Testament book
40 Confer
41 Collaborations like those on “Ella and Louis”
42 1987 Pulitzerwinning novel about the haunting of a formerly enslaved family's home
46 Traitor
47 It might welcome you home
50 Backdrop for a shooting star
51 Folk wisdom
53 “Burning” feeling
55 Author who received the Nobel Prize in literature on the basis of her first six novels, all featured in this puzzle
57 Clean up, as software 60 Burkina ___
61 Sound of a fall
62 Shooting stars, some believe
63 Cache for cash
64 Effortlessness
65 1973 novel set in “the Bottom,” a neighbourhood slated to be demolished for a golf course
66 ___ gin fizz
67 For each
DOWN
1 Request in the weight room
2 Kauai goodbyes
3 Earth-moving machines, informally
4 Pick up again, as a book
5 Muscle misery
6 “Pipe down!”
7 Sticky note
8 Green gemstone
9 “That's ___-brainer”
10 Heat in the microwave
11 Photo retoucher's focus, perhaps
13 Something that can be racked up
15 Coat of paint
20 Telling tall tales
21 #bestfriends4___
24 ipod model
25 Black, poetically
26 Pained cries
29 Looping animation file
31 Mooches, as a cigarette
32 Overturn
33 Mind-altering drug
35 Pursue
36 Just
37 Your and my
38 Top billing
39 Furry swimmer
40 Scale units: Abbr.
43 Youtube journals, essentially
44 Very long time
45 Heaps of windblown snow
47 Unfortunate incident
48 Make excited
49 Sensitive to the touch
52 One might begin “Hope this finds you well”
54 Construction area
55 “Chicken of the sea”
56 World capital on the same latitude as Tallinn and Stockholm
57 Half of cuatro
58 Australia's tallest bird
59 The Fresh Prince of ___-Air