NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Part of a

combo meal

5 Stew containers 9 Transparent hospital

container, informally 14 Claim confidently 15 ___ Games, maker of

Fortnite

16 With 22-Down, star of

TV’S “Claws” 17 Actress Russell 18 Descartes who said

“Cogito, ergo sum” 19 Letter-shaped

construction piece 20 Checkout devices at

Dublin supermarkets? 23 Ixnay

24 Figure skater Lipinski 25 “Too busy at the

moment” 29 Occupies, as a desk

33 Winery container 34 Urban area around a

church district? 36 Footnote abbr. 38 Lead-in to an alias 39 “Sorry Not Sorry”

singer Lovato 40 Claim that a language in “The Lord of the Rings” is not extinct? 45 Button on a remote:

Abbr.

46 Stew, steam or boil

47 Bubbly mixers 49 Peddle

51 Marina marker

52 Suggestion to friends on when to meet for lunch?

57 “Precision crafted performance” sloganeer 59 One-named singer with a 1988 Best Actress Oscar

60 Look attractive on

61 Tempter of Odysseus 62 Nintendo’s Mario ___ 63 Quechua speaker of old 64 “Bear” with black eye

patches

65 “Amscray!”

66 A lo-o-ong time

DOWN

1 “The Open Window”

story writer

2 Set of six bowls, in

cricket

3 Cosine vis-à-vis sine 4 Gotten up

5 Slim Shady, for

Eminem 6 International grp.

founded in Baghdad 7 Funny Fey

8 What a bloodhound

follows

9 Temporary

10 Gave a

soundless alert 11 Nectar collectors 12 Signature Obama

legislation, in brief 13 Spot for some reps

21 Internet address

starter

22 See 16-Across 25 Cornell and Columbia,

for two

26 Monthly cost, for many 27 Like many unofficial

agreements 28 Websites that allow

collaborative editing 30 QB with the most touchdown passes in a single Super Bowl (six) 31 Full metal jacket? 32 Works hard

35 It might be represented by a floppy disk icon 37 Hemmed and hawed 41 Doo-wop group with six songs on the “Grease” soundtrack 42 Cut down

43 Alter ego for Homer’s

son on “The Simpsons” 44 Shock

48 Common golf course

grass

50 Thrills

52 Go bad

53 Old Iranian leader 54 Footlong, maybe

55 “I like what you did

there”

56 Greek H’s

57 “Raiders of the Lost

Ark” snake

58 Bad place for a mole,

for short