The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Hot dish that sounds cold 6 Increase, as a pot 11 ___ Dhabi 14 Composer Copland 15 Feature of five U.S. presidents from Lincoln to Harrison 16 Hummus, for one 17 Easy order for a barista

19 Feminine suffix 20 They play among the reeds

21 Gin flavoring 22 Exclamation of epiphany

25 Not quite ROFL 26 Inventor’s protection

28 $, %, & or @

30 “If ___ Street Could Talk” (2018 film)

32 “It is a tale told by an ___, full of sound and fury”: Shak.

33 Coil in a mattress 37 Oscar-winning film set partly in Iran

38 Jell-O shapers 39 Slushy summer treat

40 Ocean invertebrate with a round, translucent body 42 Trumpet’s sound 43 Furious

44 Prevailing tendencies

45 Sherwood ___ 48 Go a-courting? 49 “The Waste

Land” author’s monogram

50 Big nights before big days

51 Artist Henri Toulouse-___

55 A live one might be hot

56 Genre with a

Hall of Fame in Cleveland … or what can follow the respective halves of 17-, 33and 40-Across 60 Card player’s call 61 More robust

62 Pisa dough?

63 Kylo ___ of “Star Wars”

64 Serviceable

65 Put down new turf on

DOWN

1 Taxi

2 “2001: A Space Odyssey” antagonist

3 Nest egg letters 4 ___ citato (in the passage quoted) 5 Rorschach pattern 6 Bubbling away 7 Dict. offerings 8 Loopy

9 Overstep one’s bounds

10 Verse that exalts its subject

11 “Easy on Me” singer, 2021

12 Plains figure replaced by Monticello on U.S. nickels

13 Surprise win 18 Cucumber-like, maybe

21 Lifelessly dull 22 “Take me ___” 23 Water power, informally 24 Compadre

27 Mont Blanc, for one

29 Outskirts of the outskirts 30 Book-loving Disney princess in a yellow gown 31 Whirlpool

33 Bit of lightning 34 Defeatist’s assertion

35 Bookish sorts 36 Flappers in a gaggle

38 Late singer with a food name

41 PSAT takers, often 42 Operator of a stud farm

44 Community card between “flop” and “river” in hold’em

45 It’s connected to the tibia

46 Sheepish

47 Intel mission

48 Gawk

52 Rights advocacy org.

53 Some fourstringed instruments, for short

54 Mötley ___

56 Letter after pi 57 Common conjunctions

58 John of Salisbury 59 “Acid”