NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Quite dry,

but sparkling? 5 Swallow or duck 9 Instrument with 47 strings and seven pedals

13 ___ fide

14 Proven

15 Hummus, e.g.

16 FLIP

18 Paperless return option

19 Altercation

20 FLOP

22 Itsy-bitsy biter 25 Volunteers 26 FLIP-FLOP 30 Metonym for the U.S.

Congress, with “the” 31 Cheney in the House 32 Matches up 36 Mathematician

Lovelace

37 Rock band that memorably played Carnegie Hall on 2/12/1964, with “the” 40 One of the Manning

brothers

41 Verboten

43 Polish off

44 Goal of philanthropy

45 FLIP-FLOP

49 Dr. Montgomery on

“Grey’s Anatomy” 52 Fancy pillowcase 53 FLIP

55 Doesn’t buy, say 59 Make a knot not? 60 FLOP

63 Education professional 64 Drink of Athens

65 Asics competitor 66 Famed English boarding school

67 Stepped

68 Andrew who ran for president and mayor of New York City

DOWN

1 Cookouts, for short

2 Cad

3 Newton, for one

4 Like whatever comes after “How should I put this?”

5 “Dynamite” boy band 6 Part of a nest egg, in brief

7 Word that may be defiantly rhymed with “schmool”

8 Intensify

9 With a chip on one’s shoulder 10 Challenging soprano pieces, say

11 Kindled anew 12 Pre-pares potatoes? 15 Place to play dodgeball, informally

17 Caffeine nut

21 Many a swing voter: Abbr. 23 Magazine that sponsors Women in Hollywood awards 24 Home to more than

2,300 languages 26 Zoom window

27 Verdi opera set in

ancient Egypt

28 It’s a piece of cake! 29 Culture that introduced

popcorn to the world 33 Light element

34 One of a pair in the

mule family?

35 Pro or con

37 Third shot,

for many

38 Big name in chips 39 Make one’s mark, in a

way

42 Polling subject

44 Time for tailgating 46 ___ roll (Brits’ term for

toilet paper)

47 Where the cool kids go 48 “Listen!”

49 Less than right

50 Food with a hole

51 “So do I”

54 Curved line over a series of notes, in sheet music

56 Flare up?

57 Single bed, curiously 58 Cause for a run, maybe 61 Emmy-winning actress

Aduba

62 Wordlessly agree