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The New York Times Crossword

No. 0421

- Edited by Will Shortz PUZZLE BY ERICA HSIUNG WOJCIK AND MATTHEW STOCK Online subscripti­ons: Today’s puzzle and more than 7,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year). Read about and comment on each puzzle: nytimes.com/wordplay.

ACROSS

1 Scholarshi­poffering grp.

5 Drink company with a wave in its logo

15 “Blech!”

16 Beefy filling

17 Attempt

18 Jorge Luis Borges vis-à-vis William Faulkner or Franz Kafka

19 Lengua with a

tilde

21 Took in

22 ___ al-Haytham, medieval mathematic­ian called “the father of modern optics” 23 Concerning, with

“of”

25 Low notes?

26 Power ender

27 Scatter

31 Horror actor

Lugosi 33 Noncommitt­al

assent

37 Obsolescen­t twoin-one device

41 Certain spokenword performer 42 Draped garment 43 Red-eye

ingredient

47 Oscar or Felipe, to Miguel, in Pixar’s “Coco”

48 Number ones,

e.g.

51 Was out of one’s league, so to speak

53 Landmark 1990 antidiscri­mination legislatio­n, for short

54 Type

57 More than 75% of Finland, environmen­tally 59 Where servers work around the clock 62 Ici : French ::

___ : Spanish 63 “OK, there’s something puzzling me …” 64 Spin

65 Shredded

66 Clod busters

DOWN

1 Trade letters

2 Finalizes

business (with)

3 Unaccompan­ied,

in a way

4 Great, in Arabic

5 They’re armed to

the gills

6 Former N.B.A.

All-Star Boozer

7 Period of one’s

life, in TikTok talk 8 Actress Gunn of

“Breaking Bad”

9 Sticks together? 10 Something’s off

with this

11 “This is your brain on drugs” spot, e.g., in brief 12 Two to one, e.g. 13 Mexican

marinade

14 Fabulist’s

fabulation­s

20 Go-ahead

24 Like a roast pig 25 High lands

26 Kindergart­en

stuff

28 It’s not you, it’s

me

29 1920 play from which the word “robot” comes

30 Needle, in a way

32 Number one spots

34 That’s just the way it is

35 What’s the Word?

36 Cuyahoga Valley National Park setting

38 Co. famous for its trucks

39 Cut (off) 40 ___ Lingus 44 Best-kept

45 They’ve got bills for their newborns

46 “Jingle Bells” contractio­n

48 Lost all patience

49 Home of the Sawtooth Wilderness

50 Turkic language

52 “No more than passing from one room into another,” per Helen Keller

54 SVU” “Law & actor Order:

55 Mother of Artemis

56 Many a handle

58 Confessor’s confession­s

60 One of 17 spaces on a Monopoly board: Abbr. 61 Half a cocktail

 ?? ??

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