The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Singer Del Rey
5 Giant walking combat vehicle
in “Star Wars” films
9 Stuffs
14 Not just occasionally
15 Blue shade
16 Without backup 17 Poppycock
18 Release, as a song, in
modern lingo
19 “OK, you win”
20 Something directly following a penultimate position — that is to say, diametrically opposed to a primary one 23 Gracefully send away 24 Passing comment?
25 Girl group with the 1999 #1
album “FanMail”
26 90s, say
31 Lie in the sun
34 Li ke an oven
36 Demographic figure 37 “Bullet” in a food fight 38 Female kangaroo
39 Golden blades that may be tenderly chew’d by equine or bovine beings
44 None of it is good, as the
saying goes
45 One committing insurance
fraud, maybe
46 Prospector’s find
48 ___ Halles (central food
market in Paris, once)
49 It may end with a reality
check
53 The cat’s meow, baby. Dig? 57 Follower of pigs or cows 58 Be plentiful
59 In perpetuity
60 Country sound 61 Black-and-white swimmer 62 Name meaning “born again” 63 Shipment
64 Actor Damon
65 Till section
DOWN
1 Drink from a machine 2 Colorful kind of shirt 3 Common congestion points 4 Figure skater, for one
5 With more of
the same sort
6 Donna ___, 2014 Pulitzer winner for
“The Goldfinch”
7 Confess openly
8 Mistakke, of a sort? 9 Agreed to tie the knot 10 North African capital 11 Work
12 “That most odious and antisocial of all passions”: John Stuart Mill
13 Date
21 Pioneering I.S.P. 22 Four-star
26 Wiped out
27 Human rights
lawyer Clooney
28 Number two 29 What crystal jellies do when
disturbed
30 Views
31 ___ Men (one-hit wonder
group of 2000)
32 Food thickener
33 Janitor’s janglers
35 Decides
40 Not doing a darn thing 41 Cry toward the
end of a list
42 Source of some omega-3s 43 It may be rolled out for
exercise
44 Competitor of 21-Down 47 Cartoonist Chast
49 Tape recorder button
50 Torn asunder
51 TV producer Chaiken 52 Funerary burners
53 Classic name in audio
equipment
54 Shakespeare character who says “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is / To have a thankless child!”
55 Model in a science
classroom
56 Computing prefix 57 Alternative to an ellipsis