The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Stuff in a party bag 5 Shade of black 8 More than once 13 Use a cleaning cloth on 14 Common mixer 15 Sense of purpose 16 Fails to be 17 Nuisance 18 Gave (out) 19 Paradoxical answer to “What is ‘Golf’ in the NATO alphabet?” 22 Give (out) 23 Emcees’ deliveries 27 Paradoxical answer to “Can you say what ‘nyet’ is Russian for?” 30 Shadow, e.g. 33 Overhead light? 34 Architect who lived to be 102 35 Boast 36 Seems lit from within 38 Flexed 39 Fell 40 Suffix with cyclo41 Meanders 42 Paradoxical answer to “Where does oil come from?” 46 Comedian Aziz 47 What cheating might get you, informally 50 Paradoxical answer to “What isle is located between Ireland and Great Britain?” 54 View from a periscope 57 Word before run and stretch 58 Little wonder? 59 “La Campanella” composer 60 Surf sound 61 London transport, with “the” 62 Some plusones 63 Boom times 64 Hurried
Down
1 Big drink 2 None the ___ 3 Breath control practice in competitive freediving 4 “See?” 5 Woman in a Lady Gaga song and album title (2016) 6 Change the narrative? 7 Scuba need 8 Supplement 9 Business executive’s hope 10 Feel under the weather 11 “___ gotta run” 12 Homer calls him “stupid Flanders” 14 Part of a tape cassette 20 Singer known as the “Queen of Power Ballads” 21 Physics Nobelist Bohr 24 Change from green to red, maybe 25 Continually 26 “S.N.L.” routines 28 Bikini style 29 Gaping mouth 30 Start or end for Alexa? 31 Clean one’s feathers 32 Distress calls? 36 Where two barrel vaults intersect, in architecture 37 Baseball’s Gehrig 38 Wearable party gear with built-in straws 40 Oppressors 41 Modern warfare concern, in brief 43 Delivery class? 44 Malia and Michelle, for two 45 Idaho product, slangily 48 Really dig 49 NASA project 51 “No ___ Traffic” 52 Kind of earring 53 Contacted privately on social media, informally 54 No longer in use 55 The World Factbook org. 56 Is, to Ovid