The New York Times
ACROSS
1 Goes on a mountain run
5 The sun and the moon
9 Inits. in Congress beginning in 2019
12 Body of water between Sicily and Greece
14 Any email that begins “Congrats, you’ve been selected …,” probably
16 Brings to a tie
17 High low voice
19 “Quit it!”
20 Display in a shoebox, maybe
22 Clod
25 Makeshift umbrella holder
26 Group that gets marching orders
27 Grilled ham-and-cheese sandwich
28 Amazon swimmers
30 To be, in Havana
31 Row
32 ___ al-Fitr (feast occasion)
33 Performs a gymnastics move requiring flexibility … or enters answers into this puzzle’s four shaded parts
39 Say rude things about
40 Was idle
41 Tease
43 Aims for
47 Unisex fragrance launched in 1994
49 Horseshoer’s target
50 Astronaut Grissom
51 In agony
52 One checking the books
54 Chuck
55 Certain ocean pollution
56 Old English, for better or worse?
61 Makeup of many birdfeed cakes
62 San Bernardino suburb whose name means “beautiful hill”
63 Authors’ submissions: Abbr.
64 Pines (for)
65 A-number-one
DOWN
1 Playable character in an “artificial life” game franchise
2 Hawaiian wood used to build the earliest surfboards
3 Tattoos
4 Rest of the day?
5 Base hit result, maybe
6 Host’s request
7 Stinger
8 Actress Bullock
9 Regarding
10 The “O” of M.O.
11 Unfounded rumor
13 Actor John or Sean
15 Matriarchal nickname
18 Sunshine, so to speak
21 Plant, as an idea, in sci-fi slang
22 Includes on a thread
23 Was sorry about
24 Longest river entirely within Spain
25 States of upheaval
28 “That’s the spot!”
29 Many a Rembrandt
31 New York lake that’s the source of the Susquehanna River
34 Buildings
35 Bwana : Swahili :: ___ : English
36 Holy title with a tilde
37 1982 sci-fi classic with a 2010 sequel
38 Kind of wave
42 Hospital unit
43 Sounds of recognition
44 All ___ Day
45 Stand that a speaker might take
46 To be certain
47 Go a-wassailing
48 Perform spectacularly, colloquially
51 Mountain lions
53 Popular booth in New York’s Times Square
54 Song of celebration
57 Tic-tac finish
58 “Double Fantasy” singer
59 Econ. indicator
60 “___ queen!” (enthusiastic cry)