Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

The New York Times crossword puzzle

- John Guzzetta

Across

1 They often come in shoeboxes

9 Key

13 Widespread rumors, in a portmantea­u

15 It's handled at a bar

16 Post-crisis baseline

17 Like the second movement of Dvorak's "New World" Symphony

18 Family nickname

19 "The ultimate form of free speech," to Denis Leary

21 ___ tape

22 Streaked

24 Not sit still

26 Died down

29 Tony Stark or Jack Sparrow feature

31 Meet

34 MacGyverin­g

36 Gets less green, say

38 Mathematic­al subgroup

39 Puffed up

40 Possible response to "Did you find it?"

43 Some records, informally

44 Remington of 1980s TV

45 Actor Fitch of "This Is Us"

47 As yet

49 Parts of LEDs

53 Berkeley, familiarly

54 In working order

57 ___-SaintMiche­l, abbey site in France

58 Flattens, in a way

60 Underlying reason

62 Saul Bellow's "The Adventures of ___ March"

63 Beyoncé's "Dangerousl­y in Love" or John Lennon's "Imagine"

64 Gem used in intaglio

65 They are felt every April

Down

1 Slight faults, to a rater

2 Reluctant to join?

3 Words after god or man

4 ___ Coleman, eight-time Mr. Olympia

5 Kerfuffle

6 "Thanks a lot!," in intentiona­lly butchered French

7 ___ belt

8 Ananda Mahidol became its king at the age of

9, while living in Switzerlan­d

9 Spanish diminutive

10 Pay for a crime, say

11 "Oh, come on, can't you take a joke?!"

12 Biblical figure said to have died at the age of 905

14 Sign in front of some bars

15 Trickster

20 Stepping away from screens

23 Lunchbox option, informally

25 Silences

27 Concupisce­nt one

28 Appliance giant founded in England in 1991

30 They're sometimes replaced by applesauce in vegan recipes

31 Strikes out, slangily

32 "See ya!"

33 Branch of causality that comes from the Greek for "study of the end"

35 Mortgage deal, for short

37 Like many defendants in court

41 Word with escape or escalator

42 Camp-y retailer?

46 ___ Peninsula (Horn of Africa)

48 Rabbit ___

50 "The origin of wisdom," per René Descartes

51 Follow

52 Asparagus, essentiall­y

53 "See ya!"

55 Eject

56 Actress Kirke of "Mozart in the Jungle"

59 Shoot down

61 One in line at an airport

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