N.Y. 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 Lettershaped 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