The New York Times

ACROSS

1 Blown away

5 Black Widow’s

former org.

8 Off-roaders, for

short

12 Style of René Lalique’s glasswork

13 Fair-hiring inits.

14 Campaign to increase Election Day participation

16 Unidentified,

informally

17 Key worker?

20 –

22 When one might show one’s age, informally

23 Tribute of a sort

24 House of reps?

25 Seven-___ (worst hand in Texas hold ’em)

26 Alternative to

paper or plastic

29 Shapeshifts

30 Figure in a house

listing

31 Exactamundo

34 Temporary, controlled power shutdown … or a hint to reading four of this puzzle’s answers

40 Jimmy Carter’s Secret Service code name

41 News stand?

42 Pale in

comparison? 46 Liqueur in some coffee cocktails, familiarly

48 Foil, e.g.

49 Very quick point

51 Green standard

52 Org. opposed to

“speciesism”

53 Activities that relieve psychological stress

56 Rugged dirt track

racers

58 Extremely,

informally

60 –

61 A-number-one

62 In ___

(completely)

63 Certain sodas, for

short

64 Spot that’s hardly

spotless

65 Annual multimedia festival, informally

DOWN

1 Poet laureate

Limón

2 Suddenly fell

through, as a plan

3 Green booking

4 Fait accompli

5 French military

cap

6 Flipping out

7 Like suspicious

eyes

8 Openly proclaim

9 One in a onesie

10 Twitch streamer with a digital avatar, say

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11 Parody

15 –

18 Awards show recognition, informally

19 Bartender’s stock

21 Something that’s designed to be buggy?

25 “Je pense, ___ je

suis”: Descartes

26 Blacken

27 Spanish gold

28 Doubleday who didn’t really invent baseball

29 2016 title role for

Auli‘i Cravalho

32 Pioneer in color

TV broadcasting

33 See the world

35 Named, in brief

36 Caffeinecontaining ingredients once used in soft drinks

37 Theater section for Statler and Waldorf, on “The Muppet Show”

38 About-face

39 Gridiron stats

42 Nile reptiles

43 Carried away by

the tide

44 Drag race

conveyance

45 Poker call

47 Event for a unicorn, perhaps, in brief

49 ___ Theatres

50 They might be checked at a restaurant

53 GPS figs.

54 Game with a

rhyming name

55 –

57 Having just

dropped

59 Crew directive