NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Ending with
walk or run
4 Grape group
9 Exude
irrepressibly 13 Poppable muscle, informally
14 Popular Japanese brew
15 Experts
16 Scorpion’s
stinger
18 Ikea
department 19 Polo of “The
Fosters”
20 “Don’t worry”
22 Less soaked 24 .com
alternative
25 Lose
27 “Already?”
29 Likely answer to “Who wants ice cream?” 30 Festival, in
Arabic
31 Awe and Tay,
for two
32 One to tip
34 Breading for
tonkatsu
35 Tortilla dough 36 Bring stress
or agitation to 37 ___ large
41 South American capital with the world’s longest urban gondola
44 Nuclear
codes?
46 Zero out
47 Plead
48 Therein lies
the rub!
49 Bit of
metadata
51 Wet weather
wear
53 Poet’s sphere 54 Coverer
56 Portion
57 Word with
sitter or steps 59 Good name for a black cat with white feet
61 Commander,
in Arabic
62 Mt. Fuji
setting
63 1990s TV nerd 64 Is that what
ewe said?
65 Uberenthusiast
66 Part of a child’s bedtime ritual 67 Stale
DOWN
1 “That’s good” thinking
2 “That’s good thinking!”
3 Cutter
4 Rotten
5 Something heard secondhand? 6 Mother-ofpearl
7 “Parasite” actor Wooshik
8 Adds to the team, so to speak
9 Go (for)
10 Cookieflavored cereal
11 Fictional character partially inspired by Mexican folklore
12 Provide digital approval
17 Apt rhyme for
chop and crop 21 Artist who said “A line is a dot that went for a walk”
23 Breaker
26 The “A” of
A.Q.I.
28 Exhibited
31 Hardly
strict
33 One to tip
34 Candy once marketed as a smoking cessation aid
36 Big tub
38 One name for the game depicted in this puzzle
39 Like Rome starting in the first century B.C.
40 Promo
42 “Rush!” 43 Perseus’
horse
44 Mousse
alternative 45 Bigwigs may
have big ones 46 Actress Margot of “Bombshell” 47 Carnival
hypeman
49 Case of
emergency? 50 Clear
51 Geico “spokeslizard”
52 “Nevertheless, ___ persisted” 55 Dessert
wine
58 Himalayan
ox
60 Foxy