NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Texter’s preamble 5 Branch of the U.S. military launched in 2019

15 Soft-soap

16 Soap in Mexico 17 Coveted object 18 Best Actor nominee for 2019’s “Marriage Story”

19 “A Dream Within a Dream” writer 20 Provider of a lift 21 ___-purpose

22 King in “The Return of the King” 24 Rapper with the 1999 #1 album “I Am …”

27 What investigators might do 28 Surname of a starcrossed lover 29 “What they said” 31 Slayed

33 Apple selection? 35 Stretches for a swimmer

36 Camp sight 38 Squabble 40 Singer/actress Carter

42 Talk, talk, talk 45 Lectern locale 47 “Why, yes indeed!”

48 Where snorting isn’t rude

51 Supermodel Alek 52 Standing at home, say

53 Course pro? 55 What comes before a bet

57 Classic Vans sneaker model 58 “Oh, grow up” 61 Abandon ship 62 Comment from one who’s moved on 63 Brand name on Cakesters snack cakes

64 They include satellite cities 65 Poke alternative, maybe

DOWN

1 Cold case?

2 Line at Disney World

3 Go in prepared 4 Competitor of Stridex

5 Like some book reviews

6 Like the grammar police 7 “Succession” co-star Ruck 8 Place for a handprint, maybe 9 Heel, e.g.

10 Kind of loop in programming 11 Pioneer of elegies 12 Gun

13 Unblocked

14 ___ voting

20 In Germany it’s

“Krautsalat” 23 Chugged, with

“down”

25 Source of protein in

a poke bowl

26 Pop singer who came out as nonbinary in 2019 30 Stick on, in a way

32 Mess around (with) 34 Playthings with

“belly badges” 37 Place where shells

are put away? 39 Chains of churches

41 Bit of mendacity 43 Rowlf the Dog and Robin the Frog, for two

44 Few

46 Performer in both the Winter and Summer Olympics, in different sports 48 Certain curtain 49 Party

consideration 50 Cause of an

uprising?

54 Violeta o rosa 56 Draw

59 Low call

60 2020 thriller in which Jessica Chastain plays the title role

61 Catchy song, in

modern slang