NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Sound before a toast
5 Grin and bare it!
9 Dorm V.I.P.S
12 Spanish term of endearment
14 Actor Sharif
15 Next-generation releases?
16 Turkish city that lends its name to a species of rabbit, cat and goat
17 Dramatic honor
18 Start of X-X-X
19 Cousin ___ (“Succession” character)
20 Lead-in to care
22 Last model in ipod’s product line
24 Speck
25 Aid in self-defense
26 Musical with the song “It’s the Hardknock Life”
27 Sound of contentment
28 Industry bigwig
29 Exchange words?
30 Expatriate
32 Female whales
35 Nonbasic characteristic
36 Vehicle with a pedal assist mode
38 Flat, for short
39 Letter-shaped gasket
41 Sketchy stranger, in slang
44 Juillet to juillet, e.g.
47 Hunk
49 “___ From the Bridge” (Arthur Miller play)
50 ___ honor
51 Pod producer
52 Multihued bird
53 It might give you the chills
54 Singer known as the “Queen of New Age”
55 Highway no.
56 Scepter toppers
59 Treasure
61 Kind of milk
62 Put on
63 Pressure
64 Like sauvignon blanc
65 Workplaces for some essential workers, in brief
66 Unit of corn
DOWN
1 Accept defeat, in modern parlance … or a hint to entering five answers in this puzzle
2 GIF, e.g.
3 Common conjunction
4 Ones who don’t want to hear that you’re laying down on the job?
5 Easter egg-making supply
6 Restaurant critic’s concern
7 Cry of triumph after a good performance
8 Director Gerwig
9 Word that retains its meaning when its third letter is removed
10 “Levels” D.J., 2011
11 Scented pouch
12 Underground rock?
13 Bit of progress
21 Event first observed in 1970
23 A daredevil may hit the slopes with it
28 Band with the 1982 hit “I Want Candy”
31 Joint stockholders?
33 Certain woodwind requirement
34 Certain money transaction
37 Henry Ford or Nikola Tesla
40 Emphatic affirmative
41 Cannon loader
42 Blockbuster of 2009
43 Hot towel before a meal, say
45 Snap, crackle and pop
46 Alternative to wind or solar
48 Lights up
51 Brilliant fish 57 Sturgeon delicacy
58 [It’s f-f-freezing!]
60 Seek damages from