The new york times crossword

ACROSS

1 Young farm

animal 5 Palindromic staple in

Indian cuisine 9 Gumption 14 Classic cartoon character originally named Spot 15 Palindromic

honorific

16 It helps you show your point of view 17 Sites of many

revolutions 19 Flower whose name comes from the Greek for “star” 20 Sample 21 Dark-colored

drink

22 Lighten (up) 23 Child-oriented

nonprofit grp. 25 Confirmations 27 Physicist who invented the electric battery

28 Drab

30 Further

considers 32 Add-ons to

some bills 35 Scary thing to

ask for, maybe 36 City street

demarcation 38 Image in some “Happy Halloween!” texts

42 Line at a

theater, maybe 44 Any of the Baudelaire children in “A Series of Unfortunate Events” 45 “Ooh ... I so

want to!” 48 Whiffs 49 Sounds at a

poetry slam 50 “about when

will u b here?” 51 Add up to 52 Direction en

España

53 Bon ___, indie band with a platinum debut album of 2008 55 Long-running animated TV role that hasn’t had a speaking appearance since 2017 58 Back in style 60 Subject of some medical research … or a description of this puzzle’s theme? 62 Ponder, with

“over” 63 Recipient of some donation requests, informally 64 Stick with it 65 Supply 66 Salt-N-___ (“Let’s Talk About Sex” group) 67 Places for

squatters

1 Amount to 2 Sign of ripeness, perhaps 3 Hopping

spots? 4 Remedy for a

sore throat

5 “I ___ tired!” 6 Whom so-called “Swifties” are fans of 7 Influencer, as

with fashion 8 Breakfast

times, in brief 9 Grp. of club

owners?

10 Boil over 11 Speech that ends sentences with rising tones Peaks 12

DOWN

Malaika Handa

13 “Squid Game”

setting

18 ___ Records, division of Sony

24 1987 biopic set

in China 26 Kind of beetle with large jaws

27 Shade provider 28 “Hold on,” in a

message 29 Simu ___, portrayer of Shang-Chi in the Marvel Universe 31 Jaunty

greeting 33 Grates

34 Huff

37 Name found in

“ingredient” 39 “Is that so?” 40 Shake up 41 They’re good to

know 43 Qualify 45 Program extra 46 Body image? 47 Waved the

white flag 49 Some Eastern

Europeans 51 Lead-in to sine, cosine or tangent 54 Tennis champ

Raducanu 56 Kind of job

that’s coveted 57 Purposes 59 Flattering lines 60 Gradually

weaken

61 ___ tart (Chinese custard pastry)