The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Shade of red

5 Food drive donation 8 Highly skilled sorts

14 Like most job interviews 16 Heartily enjoy, as a joke 17 End of a plug, often 18 Greatly respect 19 Record executive’s stack 21 ___ Daily, popular podcast for armchair athletes 22 Packaged ration, for short 23 Number six in a group of five 24 Lux. locale

27 “___ true”

28 Ice cream thickeners 30 Makeup of some waste lines 33 Place for a bead 34 Dobermans and mastiffs, traditionally 35 Recreational sports association for adults 37 Tool used on a padlock 38 Couple’s enthusiastic R.S.V.P. 39 “Jiminy Christmas!” 43 Beverage option at early McDonald’s restaurants 44 Acrobat’s platform 45 Literally, “peace”

46 Info next to alumni names, maybe: Abbr. 47 ___-Mex (cuisine)

49 “This tastes delicious!,” maybe

50 Cut deeply

52 Nominee for the first two Nobel Prizes in Literature (1901-02), but never won 55 Treat commonly eaten with a wooden utensil 58 Foodies

59 Key of Beethoven’s Seventh 60 V formation?

61 Bee activity

62 ___ tax 63 Conference foes of the Buffaloes

DOWN

1 It shows the way 2 Experience

3 Dirty, in a way 4 Rationale for a dumb stunt, in modern slang

5 The emperor’s old clothes? 6 Smartphone payment that unlocks premium content 7 Double birdie?

8 In time?: Abbr.

9 Sow : pig :: ___ : koala 10 Projecting edge 11 Grand standing 12 Atlantic game fish

13 Pro with a pad

15 So and so? 20 Things that might be kept covered in a kitchen 25 Reason for a restart

26 Top of a chain, maybe 29 Like an evangelical Christian 31 Dear

32 Came down hard (on) 34 Attention ___

36 John Milton’s “Lycidas” is one

37 Finger food at a pastry shop?

38 Pen pal’s request

40 “Be my guest” 41 Eisenhower’s boyhood home 42 Adulterates

43 Series finales

44 Smart ___

48 “Still ___” (2014 drama that earned a Best Actress Oscar) 51 Mecca trekker

53 List of choices

54 Origin of some lyrics sung in “The Lion King”

56 Host

57 Ending of many a web address