The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Ending with walk or

run

4 Grape group

9 Exude irrepressibly 13 Poppable muscle,

informally

14 Popular Japanese

brew

15 Experts

16 Scorpion’s stinger 18 Ikea department 19 Polo of “The Fosters” 20 “Don’t worry”

22 Less soaked

24 .com alternative 25 Lose

27 “Already?”

29 Likely answer to “Who

wants ice cream?” 30 Festival, in Arabic 31 Awe and Tay, for two 32 One to tip

34 Breading for tonkatsu 35 Tortilla dough

36 Bring stress or agita

tion to

37 ___ large

41 South American capital with the world’s longest urban gondola 44 Nuclear codes?

46 Zero out

47 Plead

48 Therein lies the rub! 49 Bit of metadata

51 Wet weather wear 53 Poet’s sphere 54 Coverer

56 Portion

57 Word with sitter or

steps

59 Good name for a black

cat with white feet 61 Commander, in Arabic 62 Mt. Fuji setting 63 1990s TV nerd

64 Is that what ewe said? 65 Uber- enthusiast 66 Part of a child’s bed

time ritual

67 Stale

DOWN

1 “That’s good” think

ing

2 “That’s good think

ing!”

3 Cutter

4 Rotten

5 Something heard

secondhand?

6 Mother- of- pearl 7 “Parasite” actor Woo

shik

8 Adds to the team, so

to speak

9 Go (for) 10 Cookie-flavored cereal 11 Fictional character partially inspired by Mexican folklore 12 Provide digital approv

al

17 Apt rhyme for chop

and crop 21 Artist who said “A line is a dot that went for a walk”

23 Breaker

26 The “A” of A.Q.I. 28 Exhibited

31 Hardly strict

33 One to tip

34 Candy once marketed as a smoking cessation aid

36 Big tub

38 One name for the game depicted in this puzzle

39 Like Rome starting in

the first century B.C. 40 Promo

42 “Rush!”

43 Perseus’ horse 44 Mousse alternative 45 Bigwigs may have big

ones

46 Actress Margot of

“Bombshell” 47 Carnival hypeman 49 Case of emergency? 50 Clear

51 Geico “spokeslizard” 52 “Nevertheless, ___

persisted”

55 Dessert wine 58 Himalayan ox

60 Foxy