The new york times crossword

ACROSS

1 Part of a combo

meal

5 Stew containers 9 Transparent hospital container, informally 14 Claim

confidently 15 ___ Games, maker of Fortnite

16 With 22-Down, star of TV’s “Claws” 17 Actress Russell 18 Descartes who said “Cogito, ergo sum” 19 Letter-shaped construction piece 20 Checkout devices at Dublin supermarkets? 23 Ixnay

24 Figure skater

Lipinski

25 “Too busy at the

moment” 29 Occupies, as a

desk

33 Winery

container 34 Urban area around a church district? 36 Footnote

abbr.

38 Lead-in to an

alias

39 “Sorry Not Sorry” singer Lovato

40 Claim that a language in “The Lord of the Rings” is not extinct? 45 Button on a

remote: Abbr. 46 Stew, steam or

boil

47 Bubbly mixers 49 Peddle 51 Marina marker 52 Suggestion to friends on when to meet for lunch? 57 “Precision crafted performance” sloganeer 59 One-named singer with a 1988 Best Actress Oscar 60 Look attractive

on

61 Tempter of

Odysseus 62 Nintendo’s

Mario ___ 63 Quechua

speaker of old 64 “Bear” with black eye patches 65 “Amscray!”

66 A lo-o-ong time

DOWN

1 “The Open Window” story writer

2 Set of six bowls, in cricket

3 Cosine vis-à-vis

sine

4 Gotten up

5 Slim Shady, for

Eminem 6 International grp. founded in Baghdad 7 Funny Fey 8 What a bloodhound follows 9 Temporary 10 Gave a soundless alert

11 Nectar

collectors 12 Signature Obama legislation, in brief

13 Spot for some

reps

21 Internet address starter

22 See 16-Across 25 Cornell and Columbia, for two

26 Monthly cost,

for many

By Christopher Adams

27 Like many unofficial agreements 28 Websites that allow collaborative editing

30 QB with the most touchdown passes in a single Super Bowl (six) 31 Full metal

jacket? 32 Works

hard

35 It might be represented by a floppy disk icon 37 Hemmed and

hawed 41 Doo-wop group

with six songs on the “Grease” soundtrack 42 Cut down 43 Alter ego for Homer’s son on “The Simpsons” 44 Shock 48 Common golf

course grass 50 Thrills

52 Go bad

53 Old Iranian

leader 54 Footlong,

maybe

55 “I like what you

did there” 56 Greek H’s 57 “Raiders of the Lost Ark” snake

58 Bad place for a mole, for short

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