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