NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
No. 0625
ACROSS
1 Texter’s preamble
5 Branch of the U.S. military launched in 2019
15 Soft-soap
16 Soap in Mexico
17 Coveted object 18 Best Actor nominee for 2019’s “Marriage Story”
19 “A Dream Within a Dream” writer
20 Provider of a lift
21 ___-purpose
22 King in “The Return of the King”
24 Rapper with the 1999 #1 album “I Am ...”
27 What investigators might do
28 Surname of a star-crossed lover
29 “What they said”
31 Slayed
33 Apple selection?
35 Stretches for a swimmer
36 Camp sight
38 Squabble
40 Singer/actress Carter
42 Talk, talk, talk
45 Lectern locale
47 “Why, yes indeed!”
48 Where snorting isn’t rude
51 Supermodel Alek
52 Standing at home, say
53 Course pro?
55 What comes before a bet
57 Classic Vans sneaker model
58 “Oh, grow up”
61 Abandon ship
62 Comment from one who’s moved on
63 Brand name on Cakesters snack cakes
64 They include
satellite cities
65 Poke alternative, maybe
DOWN
1 Cold case?
2 Line at Disney World
3 Go in prepared
4 Competitor of Stridex
5 Like some book reviews
6 Like the grammar police
7 “Succession” co-star Ruck
8 Place for a handprint, maybe
9 Heel, e.g.
10 Kind of loop in programming
11 Pioneer of elegies
12 Gun
13 Unblocked
14 ___ voting
20 In Germany it’s “Krautsalat”
23 Chugged, with “down”
25 Source of protein in a poke bowl
26 Pop singer who came out as nonbinary in 2019
30 Stick on, in a way
32 Mess around (with)
34 Playthings with “belly badges”
37 Place where shells are put away?
39 Chains of churches
41 Bit of mendacity
43 Rowlf the Dog and Robin the Frog, for two
44 Few
46 Performer in both the Winter and Summer Olympics, in different sports
48 Certain curtain
49 Party consideration
50 Cause of an uprising?
54 Violeta o rosa
56 Draw
59 Low call
60 2020 thriller in which Jessica Chastain plays the title role
61 Catchy song, in modern slang