NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Composer of the piano piece played in the “Tom and Jerry” short “The Cat Concerto” 6 Fuse 10 Sugarcoated, in a way

14 Dancing like a ballerina 15 “Sounds good!” 16 First line on a form, often

17 Par ___ (by airmail, in French)

18 Word after lo or chow

19 Phaser setting 20 Sports bar purchases? 23 Summer setting in Mass.

24 Actor Kingsley 25 Guy in a crew

28 Do a cobbler’s job on

30 Like a kitten cuddling with a puppy

32 Before, in poetry 33 Sports bar purchases? 36 Recipient of the inaugural A.T.P. Player of the Year award 39 “Chandelier” singer 40 Has a student loan, say

41 Sports bar purchases? 46 Assistance

47 Every which way

48 Relents

52 Gets the hair just right, say 54 “Better Call Saul” network 55 Spanish article 56 Sports bar purchases? 60 Recite the rosary, e.g. 62 Currency of Portugal 63 Occupied, as a desk 64 Free speech org. 65 Hair removal brand 66 Cut down to size 67 “Golf is a good ___

spoiled”

68 Fix because of flatness, say 69 Some are for passing

DOWN

1 Apt shoe for a bread maker? 2 What the aliens do in “The War of the Worlds”

3 Work assignments 4 ___ suit

5 Not ridiculous, as an argument

6 Persons who identify as female, in an alternative spelling

7 Scraped together, with “out”

8 Hideout

9 Tang, for one

10 App with “Stories,” informally

11 Bee’s knees 12 Outback bird 13 Hideout

21 In view

22 Brokers’ charges 26 Fotografía, por

ejemplo

27 Loch ___

29 Abbr. above “0” 30 Quickly form a

friendship (with) 31 Home of the Sundance Film Festival

34 Apropos of 35 Zoom meeting

leader 36 Lickety-split 37 Ruckus

38 Wanted for nothing 42 Daddy, in Spanish 43 “Whew! That was

exhausting!” 44 Muppet who

speaks in a falsetto 45 Withdrawal to avoid a conflict of interest

49 Oman’s ruler, e.g. 50 Agita

51 Presses Ctrl-v on a

PC

53 Symbol of poison

on a warning label 54 Treasure

57 Feast with poi 58 Blarney Stone

locale

59 Dad, in Chinese 60 Fido’s foot 61 Record label that released the first 45 r.p.m. single (1949)