NYT Crossword hints

1 Across: Sharpened point of a quill pen (3 letters)

4 Across: One-named Senegalese American singer with the #1 hits "I Wanna Love You" and "Don't Matter" (4 letters)

8 Across: South Asian royals (5 letters)

13 Across: Actress Longoria (3 letters)

14 Across: Free-spirited style, informally (4 letters)

15 Across: *6th (6 letters)

16 Across: Summer meteor shower named for a mythological hero (8 letters)

18 Across: Paradise (6 letters)

19 Across: Musical flutter (5 letters)

20 Across: Billion years, astronomically (4 letters)

22 Across: ___ skirt (4 letters)

23 Across: "Miracle on Ice" foe, for short (4 letters)

24 Across: Smart set (5 letters)

26 Across: To, informally (3 letters)

27 Across: "___ it!" (shout in a game of tag) (3 letters)

28 Across: *2nd (5 letters)

30 Across: Arouses, as an appetite (5 letters)

32 Across: Captivate (6 letters)

34 Across: *1st (7 letters)

36 Across: Settled on the ground, say (4 letters)

38 Across: Something told with two hands? (4 letters)

39 Across: Bluish-silver Christmas trees, maybe (7 letters)

42 Across: Hosp. recovery area (6 letters)

46 Across: Great divide (5 letters)

47 Across: Moon believed to have a subsurface ocean (5 letters)

49 Across: Gamer's "off-line" (3 letters)

50 Across: Kool-Aid competitor (3 letters)

51 Across: *3rd (5 letters)

53 Across: McEntire of country music (4 letters)

54 Across: Some Monopoly properties: Abbr. (4 letters)

56 Across: Drink in a sippy cup, to a toddler (4 letters)

57 Across: Commence (5 letters)

58 Across: Mexican beer brand (6 letters)

60 Across: "I'd love to go" (8 letters)

62 Across: *7th (6 letters)

63 Across: Bygone Russian leader (4 letters)

64 Across: Pad (3 letters)

65 Across: Baker's glassware brand (5 letters)

66 Across: "Thing with feathers that perches in the soul," per Emily Dickinson (4 letters)

67 Across: "Y"-sounding pair of letters, in Spanish (3 letters)

1 Down: *8th (7 letters)

2 Down: Allen who was the 2001 N.B.A. M.V.P. (7 letters)

3 Down: One known for the morning grind? (7 letters)

4 Down: Second-born son in the Bible (4 letters)

5 Down: ___ pond (3 letters)

6 Down: "Wowza!" (6 letters)

7 Down: Tiny biting insect (7 letters)

8 Down: Creature sometimes trained for bomb detection (3 letters)

9 Down: Focus of some physicists (4 letters)

10 Down: *5th (7 letters)

11 Down: Desert quality (7 letters)

12 Down: Epitomes of slowness (6 letters)

15 Down: Symbols of fair weather (4 letters)

17 Down: Mirror-and-prism camera, for short (3 letters)

21 Down: Arrival of symptoms (5 letters)

25 Down: "Man, that's hardly fair!" (6 letters)

28 Down: Fullness, in hairstyling (6 letters)

29 Down: "The Little Mermaid" prince (4 letters)

31 Down: Shades (4 letters)

33 Down: *4th (4 letters)

35 Down: Kelly of morning TV (4 letters)

37 Down: Neon ___ (aquarium fish) (5 letters)

39 Down: Like someone emerging from freezing cold water, typically (7 letters)

40 Down: Raceway speed setter (7 letters)

41 Down: Mull over (7 letters)

43 Down: Reason to go into penalty kicks (7 letters)

44 Down: Like the paths of 45-Down, as visually depicted in this puzzle (7 letters)

45 Down: Celestial "wanderers" ... or what this puzzle's circled letters represent (7 letters)

46 Down: Flirt with, in a way (6 letters)

48 Down: "Are you sure?" (6 letters)

52 Down: Spellbinds (4 letters)

53 Down: Sunburned, perhaps (3 letters)

55 Down: Reasonable (4 letters)

57 Down: Reveal (4 letters)

59 Down: Black-and-white wedding rental (3 letters)

61 Down: Gullible sort (3 letters)