The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Hot dish that sounds cold

6 Increase, as a pot

11 ___ Dhabi

14 Composer Copland

15 Feature of five U.S. presidents from Lincoln to Harrison

16 Hummus, for one

17 Easy order for a barista

19 Feminine suffix

20 They play among the reeds

21 Gin flavoring 22 Exclamation of epiphany

25 Not quite ROFL 26 Inventor’s protection

28 $, %, & or @

30 “If ___ Street Could Talk” (2018 film)

32 “It is a tale told by an ___, full of sound and fury”: Shak.

33 Coil in a mattress

37 Oscar-winning film set partly in Iran

38 Jell-O shapers

39 Slushy summer treat

40 Ocean invertebrate with a round, translucent body

42 Trumpet’s sound

43 Furious

44 Prevailing tendencies

45 Sherwood ___

48 Go a-courting?

49 “The Waste Land” author’s monogram

50 Big nights before big days

51 Artist Henri Toulouse-___

55 A live one might be hot

56 Genre with a Hall of Fame in Cleveland … or what can follow the respective halves of 17-, 33and 40-Across

60 Card player’s call 61 More robust

62 Pisa dough?

63 Kylo ___ of “Star Wars”

64 Serviceable

65 Put down new turf on

DOWN

1 Taxi

2 “2001: A Space Odyssey” antagonist

3 Nest egg letters

4 ___ citato (in the passage quoted)

5 Rorschach pattern 6 Bubbling away

7 Dict. offerings

8 Loopy

9 Overstep one’s bounds

10 Verse that exalts its subject

11 “Easy on Me” singer, 2021

12 Plains figure replaced by Monticello on U.S. nickels

13 Surprise win

18 Cucumber-like, maybe 21 Lifelessly dull

22 “Take me ___”

23 Water power, informally

24 Compadre

27 Mont Blanc, for one

29 Outskirts of the outskirts

30 Book-loving Disney princess in a yellow gown

31 Whirlpool

33 Bit of lightning

34 Defeatist’s assertion

35 Bookish sorts

36 Flappers in a gaggle

38 Late singer with a food name

41 PSAT takers, often

42 Operator of a stud farm

44 Community card between “flop” and “river” in hold’em

45 It’s connected to the tibia

46 Sheepish

47 Intel mission

48 Gawk

52 Rights advocacy org.

53 Some fourstringed instruments, for short

54 Mötley ___

56 Letter after pi

57 Common conjunctions

58 John of Salisbury

59 “Acid”