NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Mongolian desert

5 Eggplant ___ (cheesy dish, informally)

9 ___ vera

13 Either separately

___ combination

14 Plagued

16 Wander

17 Leave in a hurry

18 Doesn’t have

fortitude

20 Winged cupids in art

22 Enter, as a foyer

23 Home of the University of Kentucky

25 Longtime name on “Wheel of Fortune”

29 “Why are you

telling me this?” 30 Fury

32 Big part of a

dachshund

33 Coach Parseghian in Notre Dame history

34 The “A” of A-K-Q-J

35 Sorority’s counterpart, informally

36 Finishes eating ice cream or soup, say

40 Word before language or temperature

41 One running for

office, for short

42 “Xanadu” grp.

43 End of a shoe

44 Means of communication in “A Quiet Place,” in brief 45 Voyage by boat

49 Escargot

51 Rescuer for when you’ve lost your key

53 Jose ___ (tequila

brand)

55 Mix of coffee and

chocolate

56 Tiny neighbor of

France

60 Performs

61 Buffalo’s lake 62 Seats at a

hoedown

63 She: Fr.

64 Deliver a burn to

65 “Wild” actress

Laura

66 Units in track or

swimming

Down

1 Develop a

chrome dome

2 Start of a Juliet

soliloquy

3 Mississippi city on the Gulf of Mexico

4 Complexity

5 Friend

6 Barely any, as

food or drink 7 Right-hand page

of a book

8 Show friendliness, despite ill feeling

9 Setting for a rock

concert 10 Hawaii’s Mauna

___

11 Rower’s

implement

12 CPR pro 15 1/48 of a cup: Abbr.

19 Where everything’s abuzz?

21 Sarcastic criticism

24 Gets hold of

26 Roman emperor who succeeded his adoptive father

27 Tandoor bread

28 Grade school class with crayons

31 Hunt for again

34 Calder Cup rink org.

35 One who might have a contract with a sandal manufacturer

36 Bird on the

Canadian dollar

37 Something that might pop into your head 38 Opposite of a

freeway 39 Suffix with cytoor proto

40 First K-pop group to have a #1 Billboard hit

44 Grad

45 Player making a

basket or goal

46 Swiss cough drop

brand

47 Need after a computer crash, informally

48 New moon, full

moon and others

50 Some frozen

drinks

52 Female flower

part

54 Flow out

56 Headed

57 New England

state sch.

58 Letters between nus and omicrons

59 Airer of “Family

Feud” reruns