The New York Times crossword puzzle

No. 0930

Across

1 Website overseer 6 Spanish for “sweet” 11 Former N.Y.C. mayor Beame 14 Like soil that combines sand, silt and clay 15 AAA part: Abbr. 16 Turpentine ingredient 17 [Birds] + [Bees] = P.R. campaign goal 19 Contraction that drops an “i” 20 “A,” on a timeline 21 Put down 22 Response to a doubter 24 Neat analogy? 26 [Lightsaber] + [Impatient fingers] = Boring 27 Painter’s kit 28 Half of a 1960s folk rock group 29 P.O.’ed 30 Go-___ 31 Common prom coif 35 Tail … or one with a tail 36 [Cellphone] + [Bubble] = Edible accessory 39 Far from fastidious 40 Blown away 42 Fictional business on TV frequently targeted by prank calls 43 Hold forth 45 Tests that are very hard to cheat on 47 “___ noches!” 48 [Cow] + [Thunder] = Snake eyes, e.g. 51 Apollo Theater’s locale 52 Word with party or balloon 53 Be struggling, say 54 Grammy winner India.___ 56 Rep. Cheney of Wyoming 57 Academy Awards category eliminated in 2021 … or a hint to interpreting four clues in this puzzle 60 It’s often included in a good deal 61 Private student 62 Watch it! 63 Former Chinese premier Jiabao 64 Keeps thinking “Grrrr!” 65 Hägar the Horrible’s pooch

Down

1 Acqua ___ (cause of annual flooding in Venice) 2 A key to what’s underneath? 3 Prime spot at a music festival 4 “My parents are gonna kill me!” 5 Winner of over 125 Pulitzer Prizes, for short 6 Bobby who sang “Mack the Knife” 7 Many flash drives, familiarly 8 Sch. in Baton Rouge 9 Ingratiate oneself with 10 Skin malady 11 Up and about 12 Major Chinese internet company 13 ___ salts 18 Copy-right? 23 Calif. school that’s about 20 miles from the Mexican border 25 Colleague 26 Dwells tiresomely (on) 27 Verdi opera 28 Flips (through) 30 Small hill 32 United way? 33 Worker searching for patterns in the statistical noise 34 Dumb ___ (buffoons) 37 Shopkeeper’s “Sorry, none left” 38 Decant 41 Place to live and learn 44 Pregnancy hormone 46 Certain tributes (although they may not seem like them) 47 Great relief 48 Legal drama with Jimmy Smits 49 Temporarily suspended 50 Shrivel from age 51 Goes underground 53 From the start 55 Performer’s grand slam, in modern parlance 58 Sport ___ (allterrain vehicle) 59 O.R. lines