The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Hot topping for a cone?

5 Practical joke 9 Tricky billiard shot

14 Way off 15 Ensconced in 16 Asian dog breed 17 *Ensign

19 Rich sources of beta carotene 20 Joint

21 One of millions in New Zealand 23 Migration pattern?

24 Lose one’s shirt, say

25 *Emirate

28 Coup planners 30 Ensiform, adj.: Shaped like a ___ 31 ___ Valley

34 Singer Williams who founded the Temptations

36 Split up

38 Pre-med pre-req 39 *Arbiter

41 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, e.g.

42 Came to pass 44 Bibliographer’s abbr.

45 Ceremony

46 They’re typically older than seniors 48 One in it for the long haul

50 *Depot

52 Put on a big smile 56 ___ Formosa (barrier island system of Portugal)

57 Figure in I Samuel 58 Issuance from an American embassy, in brief 59 Discombobulated 61 *Begin

64 Meant to be

65 “And so …”

66 Actor Woo-shik of “Parasite”

67 Long hauls 68 Doesn’t stay tight 69 Hankerings

DOWN

1 Scores

2 Underway

3 Steamy stuff 4 Most-grown coffee bean in the world

5 Copacetic

6 Bon ___

7 Exemplar of neatness

8 Barely defeated 9 Launches an attack

10 Going by, in brief 11 Chevy truck since 1998

12 Staple of Trinidadian music 13 Plein-air prop 18 Kelly of morning talk

22 “Time ___ …” 25 Nonreflective, in a way

26 Not too much 27 First part of a triple jump

29 Stole from a burlesque act 31 With 50-Down, annual June sports event

32 It’s never out of tune

33 Anathema to an aesthete

35 Cut down

37 Surpass

39 What some people are dyeing to be?

40 Puckish sort

43 ___ fly 45 Implied right in the First and Fourth Amendments

47 Big star, in Spain 49 If-then-_ _ _ (programming construct)

50 See 31-Down 51 Things one might pick up while entering a room 53 Church offering 54 Apply to

55 2024 Olympics site

58 Focus of the U.S.A.F.’s Project Blue Book (19521969)

60 “Yikes!”

62 Time to remember

63 ___ white