NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
No. 0621
ACROSS
1 Arid Mongolian expanse
5 Forensics facility at Quantico, Va.
11 Driver’s guide, for short
14 Mireille ___, co-star of AMC’s “The Killing”
15 Yale, to alums
16 Muscle worked by a kettlebell swing, informally
17 “This is payback!”
19 Manipulate
20 NFL Hall of Famer Dawson
21 “Hold your horses!”
22 Cheese in a Greek salad
23 Winning
25 City that’s home to the Anne Frank House
27 Teri of “Mr. Mom”
28 ___ punk (fusion genre with Jamaican rhythms)
29 Toilette water
30 Bit of firepit debris
31 Bull with a horn, informally
33 “Silence!”
37 The Thinker and others
39 ___ 500 (NASCAR’s “Super Bowl”)
41 German bacteriologist who lent his name to a kind of dish
42 “Ripped”
44 Destination on a fast-food lover’s bucket list?
45 “Knives Out” actress de Armas
47 Constitutional initiative passed in ’72 but never ratified
48 Self-description for many an expert hobbyist
49 Desk item that’s shaken
53 Linger
54 Countess’s counterpart
55 Actress Bonet
56 “___ House” (1970 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young hit)
57 Fright ___ (gag item)
58 Instant ... hinted at four times in this puzzle’s circled letters
62 Señora Perón
63 Grimm sister
64 One of 24
65 Kylo ___ of
“Star Wars”
66 Bullfighter
67 CPR specialists
DOWN
1 ___-X
2 The Yoko of “Oh Yoko!”
3 Headgear for Laurel or Hardy
4 “Cross my heart!”
5 Jump ___ joy
6 Displayed affection from across the room, say
7 He’s got notions
8 Some jeans
9 Small building wing
10 Container for recycling
11 Stuck together, in a way
12 Spaghetti, e.g.
13 Emission from a whistling kettle
18 Bitter ___
22 Peach or persimmon
23 Audibly astonished
24 Undue hurry
26 Rapper on 1988’s “Straight Outta Compton”
28 “___ Drives Me Crazy” (Fine Young Cannibals hit)
31 Having misgivings about
32 Shoe insert
34 Part of a house that might have a full house
35 Surmise
36 Exhibiting poor taste
38 Big drag on a fishing expedition?
40 In the style of
43 Place to get a cookie, maybe
46 Yearly honor awarded for each NFL position
48 Lacking grace and refinement
49 Ninja turtle hangout
50 Unwise to the ways of the world
51 Hymn player
52 Edmonton athlete
53 Piggy, in a nursery rhyme
58 Pepper or Friday: Abbr.
59 ___-mo
60 Bolt’s counterpart
61 AMA members: Abbr.