NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

edited by will shortz

ACROSS

1 Pace set by a

metronome

6 Ewe’s mate

9 Percolate

13 Measure of gold’s

purity, not its weight 14 Cause of a laugh 15 Bone parallel to the

radius

16 Closing bit of music

17 In memoriam piece 18 Doe or buck

19 “Have another round —

my treat!”

22 ___-bitsy

25 Private eye, in old slang 26 C-worthy

27 Gloating words of

mock consolation 31 Wretched

32 Amanda of “Sleeping

With Other People” 33 Texter’s “Hold that

thought”

36 Revealed accidentally 39 Once-standard feature not found in most newer vehicles 41 greenpeace.___ 42 Trolley

44 Blow, as a volcano 45 Invitation to a prospective waltz partner

48 Actress Rudolph of

“Bridesmaids” 50 Feathery accessory

51 Lays down turf 52 Empower a successor,

metaphorically 56 “Dagnabbit!”

57 Decorated, as a cake 58 In a good mood 62 Rough patch in

adolescence?

63 Rainy day hue

64 Full of fury

65 Bogus

66 Make music on a

kazoo, say

67 Sufi poet thought to have coined the adage found at the starts of 19-, 27-, 45- and 52-Across

DOWN

1 Boxing ring ruling, in brief

2 ___ de toilette 3 Mohawked star of “The A-team”

4 Transport built for revelry

5 Tweeter’s “alternatively”

6 Title cyborg in a 1987 sci-fi flick

7 Similar (to) 8 Distribute, with “out” 9 Puzzle with a

9 x 9 grid

10 Justice Kagan

11 Foe

12 Peel … or, phonetically, a fruit you might do this to

14 ___ K. of Kafka’s “The Trial”

20 “___ be a big help” 21 Solaced

22 Author Calvino

23 The ___ of Babel 24 Sound heard twice in

“George” 28 Something

special

29 Stephen of “The Crying

Game”

30 “You bet!”

33 Uncle “we don’t talk about” in Disney’s 2021 film “Encanto” 34 Bygone music collection from Nas or Lil’ Kim

35 Computer memory

units

37 Good name for a

financial planner? 38 Buddy

40 Sculptures made of found objects and scraps

43 The Reds or the Red

Sox, for short

45 The “S” in IOS

46 Folk icon Guthrie 47 Anatomical canal

locale

48 1963’s ___ on

Washington

49 Cat pose or downward

dog

52 Blackberrys and

Palmpilots, for short 53 Low’s opposite 54 Hosiery shade

55 ___ Pet (onetime fad

item)

59 Small butter unit 60 School fund-raising

grp.

61 “Oh, quit ___

bellyachin’!”