The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Lot unit
5 ___ acid, essential component of vinegar
11 Piece of an edible “rack”
14 Things hung upside down in some toolsheds
15 House of cards?
16 Animal opposite a kangaroo on Australia’s coat of arms
17 Lip_on produc_s
19 Traveler’s aid, in brief
20 Stately country homes
21 Traveler’s aid
23 Do some work as a teaching assistant, maybe
24 About half of the books of the New Testament are attributed to him
26 Ho-ho-holiday time?
27 Auto takeback
28 _lum-colored _lants
30 Longtime residents around the Great Salt Lake
31 Lean (on)
32 “Count your ___ by friends, not years” (greeting card sentiment)
33 Recuperative recommendation
35 Company that merged with Sprint in 2020
39 Granola grain
40 Nincompoop, in Nottingham
41 Thanksgiving meal choice
42 _usy _uzzers
46 “Around the World in 80 Days” traveler Phileas
47 Crushed ingredient in “dirt cake”
48 Lacking manners
49 VCR successors
50 Aids in wrongdoing
52 Brews made with heavily roasted malt
54 Hit hard
55 Fr_endly fac_al tra_t
58 Paternity proof, in brief
59 Christianity’s ___ Creed
60 Big name in bidets
61 String together?
62 Demolition hammer
63 Figure (out)
DOWN
1 Poke menu option
2 Second-mostused substance in the world, after water
3 Gave a new form
4 Nueva York, por ejemplo
5 Cutaneous condition
6 Onetime threat to a castle’s walls
7 Chesapeake Bay is one
8 Evens, as the score
9 Celebrity chef Garten
10 La ___ Nostra
11 Fix, as a sneaker’s sole
12 Savanna grazer
13 Clears the dishes
18 Cleared the dishes?
22 Like laid-back personalities
23 Chow
25 Relatives of vicuñas and guanacos
28 Bug
29 Showbiz award quadfecta
31 Not fantastic
34 Metal worker?
35 Annual growth indicator
36 Valentine line
37 Purchases that are assembled brick by brick
38 Animal crackers?
40 Powered a unicycle, e.g.
42 Medical licensing exams
43 Debonair
44 Granny, in Southern dialect
45 Anheuser-busch product whose ads once featured a penguin
46 Choice cuts
49 Spot for a bar code, maybe
51 IDS with multiple hyphens
53 A proposal might be done on one
56 1,000 G’s
57 Message communicated as “short-short-short, long-longlong, short-short-short”
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