The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Stuff in a party bag 5 Shade of black 8 More than once 13 Use a cleaning cloth on

14 Common mixer 15 Sense of purpose 16 Fails to be 17 Nuisance 18 Gave (out) 19 Paradoxical answer to “What is ‘Golf’ in the NATO alphabet?” 22 Give (out) 23 Emcees’ deliveries 27 Paradoxical answer to “Can you say what ‘nyet’ is Russian for?” 30 Shadow, e.g. 33 Overhead light? 34 Architect who lived to be 102

35 Boast 36 Seems lit from within

38 Flexed 39 Fell 40 Suffix with cyclo41 Meanders 42 Paradoxical answer to “Where does oil come from?” 46 Comedian Aziz

47 What cheating might get you, informally

50 Paradoxical answer to “What isle is located between Ireland and Great Britain?”

54 View from a periscope 57 Word before run and stretch

58 Little wonder?

59 “La Campanella” composer

60 Surf sound

61 London transport, with “the”

62 Some plus-ones

63 Boom times

64 Hurried

DOWN

1 Big drink 2 None the _ _ _

3 Breath control practice in competitive freediving 4 “See?”

5 Woman in a Lady Gaga song and album title (2016)

6 Change the narrative?

7 Scuba need 8 Supplement 9 Business executive’s hope

10 Feel under the weather

11 “___ gotta run”

12 Homer calls him “stupid Flanders”

14 Part of a tape cassette 20 Singer known as the “Queen of Power Ballads” 21 Physics Nobelist Bohr 24 Change from green to red, maybe

25 Continually 26 “SNL” routines 28 Bikini style 29 Gaping mouth 30 Start or end for Alexa?

31 Clean one’s feathers

32 Distress calls? 36 Where two barrel vaults intersect, in architecture

37 Baseball’s Gehrig

38 Wearable party gear with built-in straws

40 Oppressors 41 Modern warfare concern, in brief

43 Delivery class? 44 Malia and Michelle, for two

45 Idaho product, slangily

48 Really dig

49 NASA project

51 “No ___ Traffic”

52 Kind of earring 53 Contacted privately on social media, informally

54 No longer in use 55 The World Factbook org.

56 Is, to Ovid