The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Lead-in to box or bug
5 Encumbers, with “down”
9 Gooey sandwiches, informally
13 Weapon whose name has two accents
14 Lighthearted refrain
15 Surface calculation
16 Popular video-conferencing app
17 Machu Picchu visitor, say
18 Knitter’s stitch
19 Nicholson and Nicklaus, e.g.?
22 Persephone’s lover
25 “Next one’s on me”
26 Soren Kierkegaard and Chris Isaak, e.g.?
30 Little bits
31 Kaput
32 “NCIS” airer
35 Qatari dignitary
36 Broncos and Explorers
37 Who might call French fries “chips”
38 “Oh, what’s the ___?”
39 Constellation named for a mythical ship
40 Overworked
41 Percy Bysshe Shelley and Billy Ray Cyrus, e.g.?
44 Second number on a pants tag
47 Least experienced
48 Henry the Eighth and Hubert H. Humphrey, e.g.?
52 Stadium sounds
53 New wing, say
54 Frog transformer
58 Club soda garnish
59 Dorothy, to Em
60 Something to bat around
61 The yearling in the 1939 Pulitzer winner “The Yearling,” e.g.
62 Receptionist’s spot
63 Bar that gets smaller and smaller
DOWN
1 Candy whose name derives from the German “Pfefferminz”
2 Airbnb had one in 2020, for short
3 Certain fire sign
4 Tart treat
5 Cheese with a white rind
6 Like wine aged in casks
7 Sheer delight
8 Fish thought to be named after a region in Italy
9 Relatives of custard apples
10 The Boss, familiarly
11 Snack whose name comes from the Quechua for “dried meat”
12 Chip dip
14 “If ___ walls could talk ...”
20 Zeros, in soccer
21 Little bit
22 Seine send-off
23 Unhappy fates
24 Convex navel
27 Be nuts about
28 Pig out
29 Provide resources for
32 Word before ring or after true
33 Snacks
34 Cardiologist’s insert
36 Most of Nebraska
37 Rathskeller offerings, informally
40 Target of a 1917 uprising
41 More succinct
42 Taunting laugh
43 Name that becomes another name when its first letter is dropped
44 Poker declaration
45 “I kid you not!”
46 “Sorry, not sorry”
49 Falco of “Nurse Jackie”
50 Some summer libations
51 Berth place
55 Wedding words
56 Domain of SpongeBob SquarePants
57 Sticky stuff