NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Cry from a card holder
4 ___ Kelly, Democratic governor of Kansas starting in 2019
9 Yoga pose
14 World view?
15 Putin ally in the Mideast
16 “Old Town Road (feat. Billy Ray Cyrus),” for one
17 -able
19 Nickname for an instructor 20 Singer Turner’s memoir
21 Alley sight 23 Actress/singer Kravitz
24 Frost formed from fog
25 Big nos.
29 Connecticut collegian
30 Group HQ’D in Ramallah
31 Added some color to
32 Late 1970s
35 Show that Betty White hosted at age 88, informally
36 Op-ed
39 Tear
40 Trick to increase one’s efficiency, in modern lingo
43 “That one’s on me”
47 Sailor
48 Bond or bind
49 Mil. post, say
51 Soul singer Gray
52 Bit of reproach
53 Updo hairstyle
54 NBC drama that won 15 Emmys 55 Tree that’s one of Athena’s symbols 58 Method of communication needed to understand 17-, 25-, 36- and 49-Across 61 Target
62 Hybrid fruit
63 ___ in Nancy
64 Figures in academia
65 Unlikely Christmas gifts in tropical areas
66 Is written in old Rome?
DOWN
1 Worked from home, say
2 Sea creatures that move by jet propulsion
3 “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade” outlook
4 Singer ___ Del Rey
5 Grateful?
6 Tour letters
7 “Invisible Man” author Ellison 8 Berries, for breakfast cereal, e.g. 9 Intriguing discovery in a cave
10 Date
11 Second-largest private employer in the U.S., after Walmart 12 Cartoonist Hollander
13 Log splitter
18 Prime factor
22 “Up to this point, no”
25 Where to get a polysomnogram
26 ___ Crawley, countess on “Downton Abbey”
27 More off-the-wall
28 Nada
30 Talking point
33 It might be shot on a winding seaside road
34 Part of the knee, for short
37 Shere who wrote “Sexual Honesty: By Women for Women”
38 Eschew dinner company
41 Large, noisy insects
42 Route 1 terminus
43 “The Wind in the Willows” character 44 “That’s not true!”
45 Daughter of Muhammad 46 One-ups
50 Small hill
51 Big ___
54 Gives permission to
56 Camper, e.g.
57 H.S. exam org.
59 Regret
60 Cover some ground