The New York Times crossword puzzle

No. 0831

Across

1 Chaps

4 Its 27-inch model was discontinued in 2022

8 Inundates with some junk

13 Card game cry

14 Org. that sent Perseverance to 63-Across 15 Academy enrollee

16 *Type of meal first sold by C. A. Swanson & Sons

18 Spice in springerle cookies

19 Only about one-sixth of these in humans is visible

20 Call from a cornfield

21 Oscar winner Witherspoon

22 Michigan football rival, for short 24 *Hospital bagful

26 *Multimediafocused school org. 29 Hard or soft finish?

30 Goes first

31 Dictator Amin

32 Up in the air, for short

35 Dubious foodeating guideline … or a hint to the answers to this puzzle’s starred clues

39 Pub pick

40 Code component

41 –

42 “Let’s do this”

44 *Camper’s place, maybe

45 *Up-andcoming group in high school athletics

48 Egyptian ophidian

49 Covers

50 Horror film cry

52 Some daily temps

56 Bris, bat mitzvah and others

57 *Federal tax incentive for buying a Tesla, say

59 Good name for a home renter? 60 “___ Flux” (1990s MTV series)

61 Help with the dishes

62 Joneses for

63 See 14-Across

64 Possible reason for a PG-13 rating

Down

1 You might be on it during a meeting

2 Be covetous of

3 Connection point

4 Tripadvisor recommendation, perhaps

5 Nickname for Mowgli in “The Jungle Book”

6 Away from land

7 It’s lowered in the drive-thru line

8 Devours, with “down” 9 Some convention offerings

10 Bye at the

French Open?

11 International athlete who twice made Time’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world

12 Charger

17 Wagnerian princess

23 Figure (out)

25 Miner discovery?

26 Sporty Italian auto, informally

27 Cover, in a way

28 Give in

31 “My lotto ticket might be the winner”

32 Toro or shiro maguro, at a sushi bar 33 Busy day, in retrospect

34 Division of a newsroom

36 Director Kazan

37 Real ID issuers, in brief

38 ___ effect

42 Something to think about?

43 Dishevels

44 Longstanding ill will

45 Eddie Bauer competitor

46 “There you go!”

47 Smooth kind of finish

51 Layer beneath the sclera and cornea

53 Track figures

54 Certain money transfer

55 “Mr. Roboto” band, 1983

58 O.R. staffers