The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Pace set by a metronome 6 Ewe’s mate

9 Percolate

13 Measure of gold’s purity, not

its weight

14 Cause of a laugh

15 Bone parallel to the radius 16 Closing bit of music

17 In memoriam piece

18 Doe or buck

19 “Have another round — my

treat!”

22 ___-bitsy

25 Private eye, in old slang 26 C-worthy

27 Gloating words of mock

consolation

31 Wretched

32 Amanda of “Sleeping With

Other People”

33 Texter’s “Hold that thought” 36 Revealed accidentally 39 Once-standard feature not

found in most newer vehicles 41 greenpeace.___

42 Trolley

44 Blow, as a volcano 45 Invitation to a prospective

waltz partner

48 Actress Rudolph of

“Bridesmaids”

50 Feathery accessory

51 Lays down turf

52 Empower a successor,

metaphorically 56 “Dagnabbit!”

57 Decorated, as a cake

58 In a good mood

62 Rough patch in

adolescence?

63 Rainy day hue

64 Full of fury 65 Bogus

66 Make music on a kazoo, say 67 Sufi poet thought to have coined the adage found at the starts of 19-, 27-, 45and 52-Across

DOWN

1 Boxing ring ruling, in brief 2 ___ de toilette

3 Mohawked star of “The

A-Team”

4 Transport built for revelry 5 Tweeter’s “alternatively” 6 Title cyborg in a 1987 sci-fi

flick

7 Similar (to)

8 Distribute, with “out” 9 Puzzle with a

9 x 9 grid

10 Justice Kagan

11 Foe

12 Peel … or, phonetically, a

fruit you might do this to 14 ___ K. of Kafka’s “The Trial” 20 “___ be a big help” 21 Solaced

22 Author Calvino

23 The ___ of Babel

24 Sound heard twice in

“George” 28 Something special 29 Stephen of “The Crying

Game”

30 “You bet!”

33 Uncle “we don’t talk about” in Disney’s 2021 film “Encanto”

34 Bygone music collection

from Nas or Lil’ Kim 35 Computer memory units 37 Good name for a financial

planner?

38 Buddy

40 Sculptures made of found

objects and scraps

43 The Reds or the Red Sox, for

short

45 The “S” in iOS

46 Folk icon Guthrie 47 Anatomical canal locale 48 1963’s ___ on Washington 49 Cat pose or downward dog 52 BlackBerrys and PalmPilots,

for short

53 Low’s opposite

54 Hosiery shade

55 ___ Pet (onetime

fad item)

59 Small butter unit

60 School fund-raising grp. 61 “Oh, quit ___ bellyachin’!”