NY Times Puzzle No. 229
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
20 Like many
tournaments 22 Swiss river
23 ___ discount
24
ACROSS
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
40 Boldly stylish,
in slang
41 Comics sound
43 Pastries usually accompanied by chutney
46 Like a final, desperate attempt
50 Romantic
infatuation
51
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 ___, Pulitzer-winning 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
DOWN
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 59
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