Crossword

BLACK PUZZLEMAKERS’ WEEK

Every daily crossword this week, Monday to Saturday, is made by an African-American contributor. Adesina O. Koiki is a sports journalist in Queens. This is his second crossword for The Times. To read more about this puzzle, see nytimes. com/wordplay.

ACROSS

___ Garden, 1 London district known for diamond trading Bump fists

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Form of jazz 10 Ventilate 13 thoroughly

Sonic the 14 Hedgehog company

Actress de Armas 15 Insect with 16 powerful hind legs

Mormons, in brief 18 Something Santa 19 makes (and checks twice) Riddle-me-___ 20 ___ Park, Colo. 21 Grade downgrade 23 Hand: Sp. 24 Naughty’s 26 opposite Clouseau’s rank: 27 Abbr.

Difficulties in life 28 Jeanette ___, 30 billiards legend nicknamed the Black Widow Objectivist Rand 31 Slow-cooked dish 32 The Wildcats of 33 the N.C.A.A., informally

Rubes, in 35 Canadian lingo Princes, e.g. 39 Longing 41 Animator’s sheet 42 Film technique 43 used in old California Raisins ads

Novelist Jaffe 47 Go steady with 48 Plant pouches 49 Wilma’s pal on 50 “The Flintstones” Responses of 51 “the unheard,” per Martin

Luther King Jr. Japanese drama 53 Starting 54

Use a “+” 55

Playing area 56 usually having one of the surfaces seen at the starts of 16-, 28- and 43-Across Rechewed food 60 x or y, in plane 61 geometry

News anchor 62 Mitchell

Mil. mess 63 personnel

1990s Fox 64 dramedy with Charles S. Dutton Abate 65

DOWN

Sea ___ (enemy 1 of Popeye)

El Al et al. 2

Lionel collection 3 50-50 chance 4 Red-cards, in a 5 soccer match To the ___ degree 6 Ambivalent reply 7 to “Can you do me a favor?”

It’s “just a 8 number”

Trim 9

Second-least 10 valuable avenue in Monopoly after Mediterranean Batting next 11 Overtakes 12

Bit of asparagus 14 Financial expert 17 Suze

Winter falls 22 Cereal go-with 23 “Um, all righty” 25 “Laughing” 28 animals

___ Deion 29 (onetime football nickname)

Tiny bit 31

Until now 34

Trips to support 36 conservation

Not paying a 37 cent, as a tenant Leave rolling in 38 the aisles Containing tin 40 Dinosaur in 41 Super Mario World Once-popular 43 place to store music In bed after an 44 injury, say Quarreling 45

Trash cans 46 on computer screens, e.g Covers again, as 47 a lawn

Skin problem 50 portmanteau

Old TV’s “___ 52 Search”

Prefix with 57 skeleton

Pizzeria owner 58 in “Do the Right Thing”

Amy who wrote 59 “The Joy Luck Club”