NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 One-named singer with the hit “Dark Lady”

5 Regions 10 Little ’uns 14 The “R” of the Supreme Court’s

R.B.G.

15 Tropical fruit 16 Rude sound at the dinner table

17 Palo ___, Calif. 18 Milk source on a dairy cow

19 Asterisk 20 Flower of the tree Prunus mume

23 Bread bag closer 24 “How ya ___?” 25 Money back on a purchase 27 Month with no federal holidays

30 Hairstyle option 32 What cold weather may bring

33 Bringer of cold weather

36 See 8-Down 37 ___-hole (place to secrete oneself )

38 39 Word before whiz Winged beast on the Welsh flag

42 Lindsay of “The Parent Trap” 44 Forms a mass of small bubbles 45 Place to store canned goods 46 “Take that!” 48 Nickname for

grandma

49 Make a mistake

50 Game piece on which 20-, 33- or 39-Across might be pictured 56 One-named singer with the

hit “Orinoco Flow” 58 Hairstyle option 59 Word between

File and View on a menu bar

60 Gourmand’s passion 61 The Little Mermaid 62 ___ mater 63 Small earring

64 “Gimme a C …!” and “Go team!” 65 Dee ___, director of “Bessie” and “Mudbound”

Down

1 “Oh, no!” 2 Main body of a ship

3 “___, Brute?” 4 Diamond shape, in geometry 5 Trinket worn for luck

6 Gas detected by home test kits 7 Gets discontinued 8 With 36-Across, in the distant past 9 Alpha Kappa Alpha, for one 10 Basic cable channel that’s part of WarnerMedia Entertainment 11 “Awesome!”

12 Personality facet 13 Unrestrained shopping trip 21 Superlative 22 Work well together 26 Texter’s “Oh, just remembered …” 27 Miles away 28 Impulse 29 Comment made with a pat on the back 30 Commotions 31 Bird whose head doesn’t make a sound? 33 Close

34 Close

35 When tripled, a liar’s mantra 37 “The Princess Diaries” actress Anne 40 Rainless 41 Travel all over the place

42 A.P. ___ (high school English course, for short) 43 Rampaging 45 Receptors for solar energy 46 Complaints 47 “… well, never mind then” 48 “To Kill a Mockingbird” or “The Maltese Falcon” 51 “Take this!” 52 One corner on a Monopoly board 53 Inactive 54 Garnish for a Corona 55 Scheduling guesses that might be updated in midair, for short 57 Subtract’s opposite