The new york times crossword

ACROSS

1 Vaccine units,

in brief 4 Villainous 7 Common wood

for shoe trees 12 Sweetie 13 Cause for a food recall, maybe

16 20 Questions

category

18 The Food Network’s “Barefoot Contessa” 20 Chew out 21 Lit-___

22 Civil rights leader who co-founded the N.A.A.C.P. 24 “Obviously!” 27 Wetland wader with a downcurved bill 28 U.S.O. audience 29 Mathematician regarded as the first computer programmer 31 Apt rhyme for

“cake”

32 But

nevertheless 33 “… ___ not in Kansas anymore” 34 Bulb unit 35 Portrayer of the nurse Marta Cabrera in “Knives

Out”

39 Some computing platforms

42 12

43 When doubled, a popular logic puzzle 46 Beauty supply

giant 47 Director of the miniseries “When They See Us” 51 Iconic flight

pattern 52 Qatari leader 53 Hardest to pin

down, say 54 “Girl in Progress” star with a line of cosmetics 57 “Oh yeah, that sounds super plausible” 58 Japanese soy

sauce

59 “The Vagina Monologues” playwright 63 Universal, Paramount or Columbia 64 Sudden

forward thrust 65 Bellicose humanoid of Middle-earth 66 Olympic

stickers? 67 ’Fros and fades 68 Org. with a cryptologic museum

DOWN

1 Letter before

psi

2 Yield

3 Greet with a

“grr” 4 Shellackings 5 Crossword direction: Abbr. 6 Punctuation in

a web address 7 One hailed in

the streets 8 Celeb gossip

show 9 Potentially

catastrophic 10 Blend 11 Rodential, say 14 Floral garland 15 International cricket powerhouse 17 Diminish 19 Fish or mushroom feature 23 Epitome of

simplicity

By Ross Trudeau and Wyna Liu

24 Custom

25 Eye layer 26 What

sheepdogs do 30 Wrangler

alternative 31 Clear plates,

say

34 Pool divisions 35 Alias inits. 36 “This matters

to me how?” 37 Dissolute man, from the French

38 Take up a new

residence 39 Covers for a

king or queen? 40 Bring to a new

level

41 Make R-rated,

say

43 Use, as a

prayer mat

44 Occasions for

egg-hunting 45 Competitor of WaPo and W.S.J. 47 OB/GYN tests, informally 48 Short film? 49 Dizzy

50 Chest

bumps?

52 Full of creepy

vibes 55 Assembled 56 Crime show spinoff, familiarly 60 Terminus 61 Id’s

counterpart 62 Second-oldest record label in the U.S.