The New York Times Crossword

By Dan Schoenholz

ACROSS

1 Hot topping for a

cone?

5 Practical joke

9 Tricky billiard

shot

14 Way off

15 Ensconced in

16 Asian dog breed

17 *Ensign

19 Rich sources of

beta carotene

20 Joint

21 One of millions in

New Zealand

23 Migration

pattern?

24 Lose one’s shirt,

say

25 *Emirate

28 Coup planners

30 Ensiform, adj.:

Shaped like a ___

31 _ _ _ Valley

34 Singer Williams who founded the Temptations

36 Split up

38 Pre-med pre-req

39 *Arbiter

41 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, e.g.

42 Came to pass

44 Bibliographer’s

abbr.

45 Ceremony

46 They’re typically

older than seniors 48 One in it for the

long haul

50 *Depot

52 Put on a big smile

56 ___ Formosa (barrier island system of Portugal)

57 Figure in I Samuel

58 Issuance from an American embassy, in brief

59 Discombobulated

61 *Begin

64 Meant to be

65 “And so …”

66 Actor Woo-shik of

“Parasite”

67 Long hauls

68 Doesn’t stay tight

69 Hankerings

DOWN

1 Scores

2 Underway

3 Steamy stuff

4 Most-grown coffee bean in the world

5 Copacetic

6 Bon ___

7 Exemplar of

neatness

8 Barely defeated

9 Launches an

attack

10 Going by, in brief

11 Chevy truck since

1998

12 Staple of

Trinidadian music

Edited by Will Shortz

13 Plein-air prop

18 Kelly of morning

talk

22 “Time ___ …”

25 Nonreflective, in

a way

26 Not too much

27 First part of a

triple jump

29 Stole from a

burlesque act

31 With 50-Down, annual June sports event

32 It’s never out of

tune

33 Anathema to an

aesthete

35 Cut down

37 Surpass

39 What some people are dyeing to be?

40 Puckish sort

43 ___ fly

No. 0222

45 Implied right in the First and Fourth Amendments

47 Big star, in Spain

49 If-then-_ _ _ (programming construct)

50 See 31-Down

51 Things one might pick up while entering a room

53 Church offering

54 Apply to

55 2024 Olympics

site

58 Focus of the U.S.A.F.’S Project Blue Book (19521969)

60 “Yikes!”

62 Time to

remember

63 ___ white