NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Hershey’s foiled confection
5 Grade upgrade
9 ___-mo
12 Chaotic way to run
13 Dolphins’ home
14 Hip to, as the latest news
15 Apt phrase that uses just the letters
of U.S. CAPITOL
18 Declaration made with a card in
hand
19 Diameter of a quarter, roughly
20 Mrs. Doubtfire, for one
21 Madre’s hermana
22 “Obvs!”
23 “My Sister’s Keeper” author Picoult 25 Apt phrase that uses just the letters
of UNEARTHS
31 Phone no.
32 “___ & Roy” (children’s TV series) 33 “Selma” director Duvernay
34 Sand castle shaper
36 Some sausages, informally
38 Help with a holdup
39 Where ___ at
40 Breeze (through)
41 Fedex alternative
42 Apt phrase that uses just the letters of
GRAND TIME
47 Torah holders
48 “Nothing fools you better than the ___
you tell yourself”: Teller
49 Candy heart sentiment
51 Beginning to a logical conclusion 54 Disney queen of Arendelle
55 Angry state
56 Apt phrase that uses just the letters of
MASTERING
60 ___ at windmills (fight imaginary foes) 61 Some Winter Olympics rides
62 Things you might open with a click 63 Sleep disrupter in a fairy tale
64 Hitch, say
65 Feed the kitty
DOWN
1 Broken down for good 2 “Consider that done!”
3 One who plays alone
4 One of a cross-country pair 5 Machu ___ (Inca citadel) 6 Mascara target
7 Thurman of “Gattaca”
8 “___ boom bah!”
9 Fabricated, as a yarn
10 College debt component 11 Word before child or human 13 Grade downgrade
14 Lightning Bolt
16 Like some pools
17 Not warranted
23 Kid
24 Units of electrical resistance 26 Sinuous fish
27 The sea, to Neptune
28 Cloth napkins and such
29 She lost paradise in “Paradise Lost”
30 2020 Chinese zodiac animal 34 2019 Chinese zodiac animal 35 Had a little something
36 Safe space?
37 Fixes, as an outcome 38 Sashimi tuna
40 Singer in Homer’s “Odyssey” 41 Lofty aspiration
43 Implied but not expressed 44 “Ready!”
45 Climbs
46 10-time N.B.A. All-star Kevin 50 Poetry
51 Link letters
52 Buffalo’s lake
53 Character voiced by Beyoncé in 2019’s “The Lion King” 54 Pop-up breakfast brand
57 Kind
58 Resident of a cloister
59 Many a craft brew, briefly