NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Pedal effect on a guitar

5 “Shoot”

10 Chuck, e.g.

14 Larry’s housemate on “Curb Your Enthusiasm”

15 A toast

16 Hardly to be had 17 Designs 19 Humblebragger’s words

20 Parts of surround sound systems 21 Socks (away) 23 Winner of nine Grand Slam titles 24 Short turnaround? 26 Capital of 52-Down 29 Keister, in Leicester 30 Half of a sawbuck 31 Unprincipled 32 Exams for future J.D.S

34 Separate from all the others, say 35 Urgent care provider, in brief 38 Many P.S.A.S … or the four circled squares in this grid? 40 Lilliputian 41 Famous peanut grower

43 “Giant Brain” unveiled in 1946 45 Split 46 Revolutionary icon 47 Browns and stouts 51 1990s “S.N.L.” cast member

52 VW hatchback

BABY BLUES

BALDO

B.C.

BEETLE BAILEY

BLONDIE

DUSTIN 53 Dazzled

54 Grind

56 Like some libertarians 58 Broadcast personality Kelly 60 One drawing lots? 62 Friends

63 Whole

64 Ciudad del ___, Paraguay 65 Informal meeting 66 Pool shot with lots of spin

67 Place to store things

DOWN

1 Michigan congresswoman Slotkin 2 Focal point

3 Some accommodations 4 Length of a short, maybe

5 Concerning 6 Mountain coverings? 7 “Kitchy-kitchy-___!” 8 Where a minister lives

9 Animated sister of princess Anna 10 “The Inbetweeners” or “Fawlty Towers” 11 Shamefully admits defeat 12 Miscalculate, say 13 “S.N.L.” head writer from 1999 to 2006 18 Early platform for The Legend of Zelda, for short 22 Suburb of San

Diego

25 Put under a

microscope

27 Give five stars, say 28 Sheltered

at sea

30 Longtime Packers

QB Brett

31 Man’s name that sounds like two letters of the alphabet 33 Sweetener from a

leaf extract 35 Shoe brand originating in Denmark

36 Kind of Ovaltine 37 Kodama, in Japanese mythology 39 Taking a break 42 Certain outer

coating

44 Dental

pointers?

48 Like an Oscars

afterparty 49 Discarded computers and the like

50 Had a stimulating

conversation? 52 See 26-Across 53 “How was ___

know?”

55 Pond film

57 A or B, but not Y or

Z

58 “Mom” network 59 Shade

61 Some colas