NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Part of a doorframe 5 Goat’s bleat 8 Catch, as fly balls 12 Ingredient in some topical gels 13 Furniture item often facing a TV

15 Writer Ephron 16 Top

17 The blahs, more formally

18 October birthstone 19 *Children’s book whose title character says “If I can fool a bug, I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs” 22 Dead even

23 Holds on to

26 “Isn’t ___ bit like you and me?” (Beatles lyric)

27 ___ Rizzo, main role in “Midnight Cowboy”

31 Genie’s locale

32 It has fuzzy skin 34 French word in some bistro names 35 Greek goddess of discord

36 “___ you asked …” 37 Game often played with a random number generator 38 ___-advised

39 Late actor Ed 40 Small interval for grouping data, to a coder 41 Baseball rival of

BOS

42 Takes classes at 44 Sushi topper

45 Say that you’re

going, say 47 Bygone jet, for short 48 Unwanted discovery in a refrigerator 50 Accumulate

52 Radish lookalike 54 Yard sale caveat 55 Whom you might contact after a computer crash 59 Eight, in Italian 60 Persistent little

sibling, maybe 61 Title winner 62 Hijab, e.g. 63 National Endowment for the ___

64 Unsupported

assertion

65 Big name in petrol

DOWN

1 The “one” in a onetwo

2 Actor Baldwin 3 Dance in a pit 4 Downloads in the testing phase 5 Muslims, e.g., but not Hindus 6 *Chain known for its soft pretzels 7 Bit of décor? 8 Layered buildup in the Arctic

9 Wish

10 Part of U.A.E.

11 ___ pal 13 Housing in the big house

14 Rushed, old-style 20 Monogram of the “Treasure Island” author

21 California’s Big ___ 23 Fashion’s Calvin 24 One who’s up at

dawn 25 *Prominent leftleaning political action committee 28 Literary trio found in the answers to this puzzle’s starred clues

29 “Affliction” for those close to graduation

30 Globe coverer

32 H.S. exam

33 Word with immunity or mentality

42 “The Simpsons”

storekeeper 43 ___’wester (hat) 46 Pieces of threepieces

49 Teed off

50 One of the Smurfs

51 Insta uploads 52 Care for cars? 53 Sport with mallets 56 “___ Carter V” (2018

Lil Wayne album) 57 Part of L.G.B.T. 58 Hesitant syllables