The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Benchwarmer
6 Shut loudly
10 Calendar units: Abbr.
13 Dried plums
15 Part of a brain or a 59- Down
16 Cry at a fireworks show
17 Beach outing, say
19 Hit CBS forensics series
20 Movie filming locale
21 Merchandise
22 TV studio alert
24 Ice cream drink
25 Engender, as suspicion
26 High point of winter?
29 Sound of ice cream hitting the floor
31 On easy street
35 Raw metals
36 + or - particle
37 Stick in one’s ___
39 Financially afloat
again
44 Adds to the payroll
45 Comics’ goals
46 Mother of Calcutta
49 Nota ___
50 Mobile app’s
clientele
51 Sweeping stories
53 Cry at a fireworks show
56 Instagram upload, informally
57 Traffic helicopter, e. g.
60 “Four score and
seven years ___ ...”
61 Landlord’s due
62 Partner of “signed” and “delivered” in a Stevie Wonder hit
63 Anderson Cooper’s
channel
64 Utters
65 Wear down
DOWN
1 Coppertone stats,
for short
2 Mötley ___
3 Peewee
4 Prefix meaning “one”
5 Most widely spoken native language of India, after Hindi
6 Toboggan, e. g.
7 L’s meaning, in box scores
8 Aladdin’s monkey sidekick
9 Hanukkah display
10 Asian gambling mecca
11 Refuge in the desert 12 Suffix in many English
county names
14 Like a thief’s loot
18 Like a thief’s loot,
slangily
23 “Beats me!”
24 Dutch artist known for his “impossible” drawings
25 Gore and Capone,
for two
26 “I think,” in
textspeak
27 Low-___ diet
28 Brainchild
29 Drinks not meant
to be savored
30 Phnom ___
( capital of Cambodia)
32 Fork prong
33 RuPaul’s purview
34 A pop
38 Calendar units: Abbr.
40 Pieholes
41 Savings plan,
for short
42 Votes into office
43 Gaelic spirit who wails to foretell a death in the family
46 Rapper Shakur
47 Provide one’s digital
John Hancock
48 Military info- gathering
49 Recycling receptacle
51 ___- weeny ( small)
52 Very bad, with “the”
53 Nobel Peace Prize
city
54 Ratified, for short
55 Jekyll’s bad side
58 Senate assent
59 Place for a stud or a ring