NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Fans of the Bible?

11 It’s hardly a breath of

fresh air

15 Apartment units 16 Where to visit the U.S.S.

Arizona Memorial 17 Necked, jocularly 18 Sort (through) 19 Perspectives 20 Starters

22 Bobs and weaves 23 Phone-unlocking

option

25 Pictures

27 “Auntie,” on the telly 30 Dreaded examination 32 Like bells

33 Achilles’ heel, e.g. 35 Lap-sitter

36 Solution for a chef,

maybe

37 Not on time, but that’s

OK

41 Talent, in slang

42 Sister language of Thai 43 Member of the House

of Saud, e.g.

44 ___ nut

45 Cicely ___, 2020 Television Academy Hall of Fame inductee 47 Seventh of 24

48 Plot device that

prompts a protagonist to piece things together

50 Right columns? 52 Roar from a crowd 53 Proverbial back

breaker

55 King ___

59 “My, my!”

61 Get out of here! 63 Miguel in “Coco,” por

ejemplo

64 Sweet Indian

beverage

65 “Rock or Bust” rockers 66 One who’s about ready

to go out?

DOWN

1 Attention getter 2 Lead-in to culture 3 Unfortunate thing to be

out of

4 Nets

5 Alternative to 7Up 6 Like the circle in the

7Up logo 7 Intermittently

8 Dandy

9 Trickery

10 Tick off

11 Title of hits by Abba

and Rihanna 12 Something that might be sacrificed at the altar? 13 “Never mind!”

14 Full of grit

21 Unite

24 Jaguars, e.g. 26 Trickery

27 With whom you might have a Snapchat streak, informally 28 Bad spells

29 Liquid paper? 31 Where eyeglasses and espresso machines were invented

34 & 36 What plasma

may be removed from 38 “Check”

39 It comes before

overtime

40 Slice of life,

maybe

45 Kind of bone near the

tibia and fibula

46 “___ done!”

48 Game site

49 Objects

51 Literally, “law”

54 Face covering

of a sort

56 Big producer of

speakers

57 Santa ___, Calif. 58 Surrounded by 60 Nonfiction film,

informally

62 Really jump out