NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Part of a combo meal

5 Stew containers

9 Transparent hospital container,

informally

14 Claim confidently

15 ___ Games, maker of Fortnite

16 With 22-Down, star of TV’S “Claws”

17 Actress Russell

18 Descartes who said “Cogito, ergo

sum”

19 Letter-shaped construction piece 20 Checkout devices at Dublin

supermarkets?

23 Ixnay

24 Figure skater Lipinski

25 “Too busy at the moment” 29 Occupies, as a desk

33 Winery container

34 Urban area around a church district? 36 Footnote abbr.

38 Lead-in to an alias

39 “Sorry Not Sorry” singer Lovato 40 Claim that a language in “The Lord of

the Rings” is not extinct?

45 Button on a remote: Abbr.

46 Stew, steam or boil

47 Bubbly mixers

49 Peddle

51 Marina marker

52 Suggestion to friends on when to meet

for lunch?

57 “Precision crafted performance”

sloganeer

59 One-named singer with a 1988 Best

Actress Oscar

60 Look attractive on

61 Tempter of Odysseus

62 Nintendo’s Mario ___

63 Quechua speaker of old

64 “Bear” with black eye patches

65 “Amscray!”

66 A lo-o-ong time

DOWN

1 “The Open Window” story writer

2 Set of six bowls, in cricket

3 Cosine vis-à-vis sine

4 Gotten up

5 Slim Shady, for Eminem

6 International grp. founded in Baghdad

7 Funny Fey

8 What a bloodhound follows 9 Temporary

10 Gave a soundless alert

11 Nectar collectors

12 Signature Obama legislation, in brief 13 Spot for some reps

21 Internet address starter

22 See 16-Across

25 Cornell and Columbia, for two 26 Monthly cost, for many

27 Like many unofficial agreements 28 Websites that allow collaborative

editing

30 QB with the most touchdown passes in

a single Super Bowl (six)

31 Full metal jacket?

32 Works hard

35 It might be represented by a floppy disk

icon

37 Hemmed and hawed

41 Doo-wop group with six songs on the

“Grease” soundtrack

42 Cut down

43 Alter ego for Homer’s son on “The

Simpsons”

44 Shock

48 Common golf course grass

50 Thrills

52 Go bad

53 Old Iranian leader

54 Footlong, maybe

55 “I like what you did there”

56 Greek H’s

57 “Raiders of the Lost Ark” snake

58 Bad place for a mole, for short