N.Y. 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 Emmywinning actress Aduba

62 Wordlessly agree