The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Something a

student may cut

6 Doesn’t bother

12 Team V.I.P.S

15 Author of “The Eagle and the Fox” and “The Fox and the Lion”

16 Where to watch the Lightning and Hurricanes

17 Porridge grain

18 Region that spans about 8% of the earth’s land area [Arabic]

20 Attempt

21 Rodin sculpture featuring a couple whose lips don’t quite touch

22 “My Gal ___”

23 Fencing option

24 Addams family

cousin

25 Body of water bordering Nevada and California [Washoe]

27 Actor Mcgregor 30

Biological molecule

32 Days past

33 Shakespearean

fairy queen

34 Playground retort

37 Electricity bill

datum

40 Landmark on which most U.S. radio stations base the starts of their call signs, with “W” on the east and “K” on the west [Algonquin] 43 Together (with)

44 Clay targets,

informally

45 Official language of

Ghana: Abbr.

46 Certain mattress

material

48 Commonly torn

band, for short

49 Excited about

50 Nation that shares an island with part of Indonesia [Indonesian]

54 Fall behind

56 Takes home

57 Governor Desantis

58 Commercial spaces

in an app

62 “Mud”

63 Like the names of 18-, 25-, 40- and 50- Across vis-à-vis the bracketed languages 65 Undivided

66 Look away from

67 Wombs

68 Big fashion inits.

69 Some downtown street liners 70 Start over

DOWN

1 Dramatis personae

portrayers

2 Actress and documentarian Remini

3 Arthur of the court

4 Be absorbed, as a

marinade

5 Pole that extends a

sail

6 Fellows

7 Prior to,

Edited by Will Shortz No. 0221

8 ___ Virtue, threetime world ice dancing champion

9 Sly sort

10 Grain in some

hearty soup

11 Is French?

12 What all good children do, in a nursery rhyme

13 Penguins great

Lemieux

14 Do, as hair

19 First MLB team to use artificial turf in its stadium

23 Persian language

25 Eye-opening

experience?

26 They might be

guided

27 ___ Raducanu, 2021 U.S. Open women’s tennis champion

28 Cry out

29 What some workout

videos promise

31 Loch ___

34 Investigate

persistently

35 Ape’s weapon in “Planet of the Apes”

36 International oil

grp.

38 Fellow

39 Therefore

41 Little brats

42 “That’s sufficient, I

guess”

47 It’s just an illusion

49 Take a lighter to

50 “Have fun!”

51 Long, long times

52 Get on

53 How ballerinas

often perform

55 Fortune tell

58 Some pub brews

59 Freezes (over)

60 Scale button

61 Thin cut

63 Cook with a long

history at Apple

64 Bobby of Bruins

lore