Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

The New York Times crossword puzzle

- Brad Wiegmann

Across

1 Lead-in to box or bug

5 Encumbers, with "down"

9 Gooey sandwiches, informally

13 Weapon whose name has two accents

14 Lightheart­ed refrain

15 Surface calculatio­n 16 Popular videoconfe­rencing app

17 Machu Picchu visitor, say

18 Knitter's stitch

19 Nicholson and Nicklaus, e.g.?

22 Persephone's lover

25 "Next one's on me"

26 Soren Kierkegaar­d and Chris Isaak, e.g.?

30 Little bits

31 Kaput

32 "NCIS" airer

35 Qatari dignitary

36 Broncos and Explorers

37 Who might call French fries "chips"

38 "Oh, what's the ___?"

39 Constellat­ion named for a mythical ship

40 Overworked

41 Percy Bysshe Shelley and Billy Ray Cyrus, e.g.?

44 Second number on a pants tag

47 Least experience­d

48 Henry the Eighth and Hubert H. Humphrey, e.g.?

52 Stadium sounds 53 New wing, say

54 Frog transforme­r

58 Club soda garnish

59 Dorothy, to Em

60 Something to bat around

61 The yearling in the 1939 Pulitzer winner "The Yearling," e.g.

62 Receptioni­st's spot

63 Bar that gets smaller and smaller

Down

1 Candy whose name derives from the German "Pfeffermin­z"

2 Airbnb had one in 2020, for short

3 Certain fire sign

4 Tart treat

5 Cheese with a white rind

6 Like wine aged in casks

7 Sheer delight

8 Fish thought to be named after a region in Italy

9 Relatives of custard apples

10 The Boss, familiarly

11 Snack whose name comes from the Quechua for "dried meat"

12 Chip dip

14 "If ___ walls could talk ..."

20 Zeros, in soccer

21 Little bit 22 Seine send-off

23 Unhappy fates

24 Convex navel

27 Be nuts about

28 Pig out

29 Provide resources for

32 Word before ring or after true

33 Snacks

34 Cardiologi­st's insert

36 Most of Nebraska

37 Rathskelle­r offerings, informally

40 Target of a 1917 uprising

41 More succinct

42 Taunting laugh

43 Name that becomes another name when its first letter is dropped

44 Poker declaratio­n

45 "I kid you not!"

46 "Sorry, not sorry"

49 Falco of "Nurse Jackie"

50 Some summer libations

51 Berth place

55 Wedding words

56 Domain of SpongeBob SquarePant­s

57 Sticky stuff

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