The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Ending with walk or run 4
Grape group
9 Exude irrepressibly
13 Poppable muscle, informally
14 Popular Japanese brew
15 Experts
16 Scorpion’s stinger
18 Ikea department
19 Polo of “The Fosters”
20 “Don’t worry”
22 Less soaked
24 .com alternative
25 Lose
27 “Already?”
29 Likely answer to “Who wants
ice cream?”
30 Festival, in Arabic
31 Awe and Tay, for two
32 One to tip
34 Breading for tonkatsu
35 Tortilla dough
36 Bring stress or agitation to
37 ___ large
41 South American capital with the world’s longest urban gondola
44 Nuclear codes?
46 Zero out
47 Plead
48 Therein lies the rub!
49 Bit of metadata
51 Wet weather wear
53 Poet’s sphere
54 Coverer
56 Portion
57 Word with sitter or steps
59 Good name for a black cat with white feet
61 Commander, in Arabic
62 Mt. Fuji setting
63 1990s TV nerd
64 Is that what ewe said?
65 Uber-enthusiast
66 Part of a child’s bedtime ritual
67 Stale
DOWN
1 “That’s good” thinking
2 “That’s good thinking!”
3 Cutter
4 Rotten
5 Something heard secondhand?
6 Mother-of-pearl
7 “Parasite” actor Woo-shik
8 Adds to the team, so to speak
9 Go (for)
10 Cookie-flavored cereal
11 Fictional character partially inspired by Mexican folklore
12 Provide digital approval
17 Apt rhyme for chop and crop
21 Artist who said “A line is a dot that went for a walk”
23 Breaker
26 The “A” of A.Q.I.
28 Exhibited
31 Hardly strict
33 One to tip
34 Candy once marketed as a smoking cessation aid
36 Big tub
38 One name for the game depicted in this puzzle
39 Like Rome starting in the first century B.C.
40 Promo
42 “Rush!”
43 Perseus’ horse
44 Mousse alternative
45 Bigwigs may have big ones
46 Actress Margot of “Bombshell”
47 Carnival hypeman
49 Case of emergency?
50 Clear
51 Geico “spokeslizard”
52 “Nevertheless, ___ persisted”
55 Dessert wine
58 Himalayan ox
60 Foxy