NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Line just above “total,” maybe
4 Place for three men of verse
10 Mideast site of conflict
14 That: Sp.
15 “Nothing doing”
16 Series of courses
17 Response to a baby animal picture
18 Asymmetrical crustacean
20 Like many tournaments
22 Swiss river
23 ___ discount
24 Creature whose scientific name translates to “ice-lover from Greenland”
26 Game island represented by hexagonal tiles
28 Like a planet’s path
29 Reason to take a back road, maybe
31 ___ mater (brain cover)
32 Testify
34 North America’s heaviest flying bird
40 Boldly stylish, in slang
41 Comics sound
43 Pastries usually accompanied by chutney
46 Like a final, desperate attempt
50 Romantic infatuation
51 Zazu from “The Lion King,” e.g.
52 Store posting: Abbr.
53 Pulitzer-winning author who was also a film critic for Time magazine
56 Salt, at times
57 Mistakes in baseball ... or what 18-,
24-, 34- and 51-Across might produce?
60 Rumpus
61 Running shoe brand
62 Jhumpa ___, Pulitzerwinning author of “Interpreter of Maladies”
63 “___ better to have loved and lost ...”
64 Telegraph, say
65 Safari pest
66 Time for Paris’s 2024 Jeux Olympiques
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1 Where many bags of leaves can be found
2 “Cross my heart!”
3 Energizing snack
4 Overrun
5 “Beats me”
6 What the 1660s Pascaline machine, named for Blaise Pascal, could do 7 ___ wave
8 Sch. that once used a live bear as a mascot during football games
9 Ingredient in some batter
10 Big name in trucks
11 Make bubbly
12 Mideast spice blend
13 State capital once home to Herman Melville
19 Pause to play?
21 Measure of print quality: Abbr.
25 Trees in the birch family
27 Once again
29 Certain racing wear
30 ___ anglais (English horn)
33 More quickly?
35 Sightings of them can be reported on the Enigma app
36 Unlucky accident
37 Sweet ___
38 Renounce
39 Stuck the landing
42 Place for soap?
43 Most common vowel sounds in English
44 Achieve widespread recognition
45 Cotton material
47 Calls for delivery
48 Attire for a toddler
49 Baseball stat
51 Actress Anne of “Wag the Dog”
54 Coated with gold
55 List on display at the airport
58 ___ jokes
59 Popular song