The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 The “stuf” in Double Stuf Oreos

6 Keeps track of a count, maybe 10 Seoul music 14 Balloon

material 15 Deal breaker? 16 Wander 17 High anxiety? 19 “You don’t need to tell me what happened” 20 Junior 21 Lowest rating in showbiz’s Ulmer Scale 23 Kind of paste in East Asian cuisine 26 Local

boundaries? 29 Prefix with saccharide or glyceride 31 Basketball highlight, informally 32 Sets to zero, in

a way

34 “Star Wars” spinoff set five years after Emperor Palpatine’s fall

37 It’s difficult to go against 38 Force

feed

39 Ones diving right into their work? 41 Perfume 42 Rump 43 Shape of some hooks

44 “___ but a

scratch!” 45 Mythological hunter turned into a stag 48 Infantile

affliction 50 Dreams 55 Subject of J. J. Thomson’s “plum pudding” model 57 Concept in artificial intelligence 60 Scrutinize,

with “over” 61 “Chariots of Fire” filming locale 62 Half-bird, half-woman creature 63 ___ Choice

Awards 64 Spots in which

to lie low 65 Collide into the

side of

Down

1 Keep the beat,

in a way

2 Tear

3 Verb with a

circumflex 4 [More tuna,

please!] 5 Avant-garde 6 Card game

shout

7 Berlioz’s “Queen ___” Scherzo 8 N.Y.C. event on the last Sunday in June

9 Teatro alla ___ 10 Kardashian family member 11 Rumps 12 Monthly releases of a sort 13 Hymnbook

holder 18 Giggle

bit

22 How a mysterious figure may disappear 24 “Be serious!” 25 Shape,

informally 27 Is biased 28 Some sensitive info, for short

29 60

30 What Ralph Nader did in 2000, 2004 and 2008 33 Passionate, confident sort, they say 34 Actor Stanley 35 “It’s ___ from

me” 36 Something you can’t have while standing up 37 “It’ll ___ you” 40 Bio class

subject 46 Quoted 47 Sister channel of HGTV 49 “Good” or “ill”

thing

51 Shot in the

dark

52 Sub

53 “Fantasy Focus” podcast airer

54 Lump near a

lash

55 On point

56 The smallest one is called a minimus 58 Who joins Gryffindor’s Quidditch team in “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” 59 Good people to

know

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