NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

no. 0424

ACROSS

1 Not-so-bright sort 8 Dalliance 13 Rockies you won’t find in Colorado? 15 Bully 16 Word that comes from the Dutch for “soothsayer” and, despite appearances, has no relation to a unit of measurement 17 Stinging bug 18 Dallas-toduluth dir. 19 Singer who rose to fame on “The X Factor” 21 Bug 23 Clean again, perhaps 24 Vulcan’s specialty 25 Bum-rush 27 Simple building block 28 Indicator to be quiet 29 Feels for 31 Capone cohort Frank 33 Co-star of Apple TV+’S “The Morning Show” 35 Implausible argument, say 39 Sticky food?

41 Mister, in Manaus 42 Streak

45 Bit recorded on a Fitbit 47 Perfect spots 48 “That’s ___ need” 49 Coverage of the royal family? 51 61-Across, e.g. 52 Take

55 Lock (up) 57 Orange pal of Pooh with black stripes 58 “Yeah, right” 60 Journalist Parker with a 2018 Pulitzer Prize

61 Kia model introduced in 1993 62 “___ a Pizza” (punnily titled children’s book) 63 Made a bee line for?

DOWN

1 Start

2 Cry upon hitting the jackpot 3 Auto pioneer Alfieri

4 Off week, say 5 Jazz hangout? 6 Old Renault model 7 Amount of fun, maybe 8 What podophobia is the fear of 9 Some boos 10 Awkward way to be caught 11 2020 Super Bowl-losing squad 12 Prepare 14 Some males in tales 15 Chip’s mother in “Beauty and the Beast” 20 Real posers? 22 Stocking stuffer 25 Kind of treatment 26 Like writing about writing 30 “Cry me a river!” elicitor, perhaps 32 Corner 34 When? 36 Regular order 37 What parallel lines never do

38 Schedule info: Abbr. 40 Cartoon character with the hyperactive alter ego Cornholio 42 [Testing, testing] 43 Kid-lit character who lives in the Plaza Hotel 44 Touch down 46 Gets just so 50 Hardly a man without morals 53 Green pocketful 54 Rocked, so to speak 56 Ganja 59 Lambert airport inits.