CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Across

1 Stamford-based humanitarian relief group 11 Model’s makeup, maybe

15 Spot for a wistful stroll 16 Green target 17 Brilliance

18 Tunnel diggers 19 Collect dust 20 Tamboura kin 21 “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” spin-off

22 Team apparel, informally

24 Covert ops outfit 25 One may be blank 26 Mixes together

28 Not take well? 30 Understand

31 Quick cuts 33 Single-serving coffee units

35 Curtains

37 Next in line

38 Decisive defeat 42 Condescend 45 Cooking student of Martha

46 Preserves, as beef 48 1966 Literature Nobelist Nelly 50 Tenzing-Hillary Airport site 52 Singer Lorde’s given name

54 Rooney __, co-star of the 2015 film “Carol” 55 Welcoming expression

56 Needle

58 Tandyr __: Central Asian flatbread

59 Kick

60 “It was fun!” 62 Subject of Huáscar 63 Be totally stumped 64 Part with teeth 65 Short-term bus purchase

Down

1 Energizes

2 Sheep originating in Spain 3 Joy, for one 4 __-com 5 Ring around a pupil 6 One “whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be”: Bierce 7 Pub device 8 Went wild 9 Cross a line one shouldn’t cross

10 Take notice 11 Lamasery music

12 Way back

13 Took in, say

14 “Sure, why not?” 21 Barbecue receptacles 23 hands-down What a gesture coach’s may mean

27 Trivia quiz site 29 Signals

32 Flight school hurdle 34 Many a charity tournament

36 Over

38 Hits the jackpot 39 Buttercup cousin 40 Bubble tea ingredient 41 Legally off base

43 It precedes some puck drops 44 Expresses appropriately

47 Designated

49 Some mall hirees 51 Site for a rite

53 Corpse Pose, e.g. 57 Many a TikTok teen 60 Warm-hearted Seuss character

61 __ out: hit the edge of the hole without going in, in golf