NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Result of a rise, perhaps
8 Other half
14 One of the Balearic Islands
15 Dessert order at a Mexican restaurant
16 Quirky sort
17 Life-form led by Optimus Prime in the “Transformers” movies
18 Monthly expense
19 Ballpark figure
21 ___ Lonely Boys, group with the 2004 hit “Heaven”
23 Button for enlarging an image
24 Mark of perfection
25 Expose
28 Really, really
31 Gender-___
34 T-Bird alternative
36 Cabbage alternative?
37 “This isn’t a trick question”
40 “___ c’est Paris” (French soccer club slogan)
41 Vibe
42 Airs during the holidays
43 Jimmy of highend footwear
45 Made it through
47 Pro in D.C.
49 Exaggerated
50 “The Bachelorette” network
53 Deli lunch options
57 Sound after a sip
59 Mid cruise milieu
60 Where Bill and Hillary first met
62 In
63 Budgeting class?
64 Automotive amenity that offers an annual Santa Tracker
65 Stingrays, often
Down
1 Emissions concern
2 Like some pools
3 “Thus …”
4 What something bacillary is shaped like
5 Word with wonder or designer
6 Protest movement launched in 2011, familiarly
7 Peace slogan
8 Barricaded
9 To ___ mildly
10 Cry from a balcony
11 Big adventure through the concrete jungle
12 Emissions concern
13 Ciudad del ___, Paraguay’s largest city after Asunción
15 Sound investment in the 1980s?
20 Follower of Jesus Christ?
22 Paper cut, e.g.
26 Troubles
27 ___ power
29 Sovereign land, so to speak
30 Excuses
31 It has a $100 billion line of credit with the Treasury Dept.
32 Cousin of a firth
33 Ones calling the strikes?
35 Zwölf minus elf
38 Chill
39 “___ problem”
44 Acorn, by another name
46 Fine wool source
48 Cybertruck maker
51 Mowgli’s teacher in “The Jungle Book”
52 Belt wearer, perhaps
53 Lead-in to -graphic
54 Keeping current with
55 Graduation class
56 This is taking fore-e-ever
58 Many start with “I”: Abbr.
61 Sinus doc