The New York Times crossword puzzle
No. 1211
Across
1 Producer of inflation
4 Ranking no.
7 Confront, in slang
13 Some origin stories
16 “Rumors are carried by ___, spread by fools and accepted by idiots” (old saying)
17 Moles are found in it
18 1991 platinum debut album by a female singer
19 Fantastic voyage
20 Collaborative resource
22 React to a baby, maybe
23 Promulgate
25 Food often served with plastic grass
27 Onetime Mughal capital
29 Dirt farm?
32 Ran
33 Army ___
34 Befuddled
36 Ushered
38 Medalla material
39 “Ain’t gonna happen”
40 Country rocker Steve
41 Small-batch publication
43 It’s often framed
44 Treatment for jet lag
46 One of the Scooby-Doo gang
47 Elder brother of Moses
48 Like talk, they say
50 Pentagon inits.
52 “It would ___ ...”
54 Elizabeth of cosmetics
56 Question that introduces doubt
58 Something a judge might show
61 “It’s nothing,” in Spanish
62 Where some unsolicited advice comes from
63 Course challenge 64 Black ___
65 “Cool, dude!”
Down
1 Prone
2 Where the Noah’s Ark story is thought to have occurred, today
3 Essential work
4 One might be educated
5 Unsettle 6 Subject of David Remnick’s “King of the World”
7 “All Eyez on Me” rapper
8 It’s thought to ward off bad energy
9 H
10 One making good points in the classroom?
11 Something no two people can be
12 ___ buco
14 17-Across offering
15 Spotted
21 Kind of muscle contraction
24 Tender union?
26 Cousins of crew cuts
27 Fit
28 Twinkle
30 San Rafael’s county
31 Director Sergio
35 Struck dumb
37 One face of the moon
42 Bolster
45 Identifier seen in the “Six Feet Under” title sequence
49 Actress Alexander of “Get Out”
50 2010’s ___-Frank Act
51 Name for a Dalmatian, perhaps
53 Card games are played in it
55 Grp. with muchdiscussed amateurism rules
57 Spanish seasoning
59 Have
60 Paycheck abbr.