Crossword Edited by Will Shortz
ACROSS
1 Lead-in to box or
bug
5 Encumbers, with
“down”
9 Gooey sandwiches, informally
13 Weapon whose name has two accents
14 Lighthearted
refrain
15 Surface
calculation
16 Popular videoconferencing app 17 Machu Picchu
visitor, say
18 Knitter’s stitch 19 Nicholson and
Nicklaus, e.g.? 22 Persephone’s
lover
25 “Next one’s on
me”
26 Soren Kierkegaard and Chris Isaak, e.g.?
30 31 Little Kaput bits 32 “NCIS” airer 35 Qatari dignitary
36 Broncos and Explorers
37 Who might call French fries “chips”
38 “Oh, what’s the ___?”
39 Constellation named for a mythical ship
40 Overworked
41 Percy Bysshe Shelley and Billy Ray Cyrus, e.g.?
44 Second number on a pants tag
47 Least experienced
48 Henry the Eighth and Hubert H. Humphrey, e.g.?
52 Stadium sounds 53 New wing, say 54 Frog transformer 58 Club soda garnish 59 Dorothy, to Em 60 Something to bat
around
61 The yearling in the 1939 Pulitzer winner “The Yearling,” e.g.
62 Receptionist’s
spot
63 Bar that gets smaller and smaller
DOWN
1 Candy whose name derives from the German “Pfefferminz”
2 Airbnb had one in
2020, for short
3 Certain fire
sign
4 Tart treat
5 Cheese with a
white rind
6 Like wine aged in
casks
7 Sheer delight
8 Fish thought to be named after a region in Italy
9 Relatives of
custard apples
10 The Boss,
familiarly
11 Snack whose name comes from the Quechua for “dried meat”
12 Chip dip
14 “If ___ walls could
talk ...”
20 Zeros, in soccer 21 Little bit
22 Seine send-off
23 Unhappy fates
24 Convex navel 27 Be nuts about 28 Pig out
29 Provide resources for
32 Word before ring or after true
33 Snacks
34 Cardiologist’s insert
36 Most of Nebraska 37 Rathskeller offerings, informally
40 Target of a 1917
uprising
41 More succinct 42 Taunting laugh 43 Name that becomes another name when its first letter is dropped
44 Poker
declaration 45 “I kid you not!” 46 “Sorry, not
sorry”
49 Falco of “Nurse
Jackie”
50 Some summer
libations
51 Berth place
55 Wedding
words
56 Domain of SpongeBob SquarePants 57 Sticky stuff