N.Y.TimesCrosswordPuzzle
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 Little bits 31 Kaput
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