NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Ending with

walk or run 4 Grape group 9 Exude

irrepressibly 13 Poppable muscle, informally 14 Popular

Japanese brew 15 Experts 16 Scorpion’s

stinger

18 Ikea

department 19 Polo of “The

Fosters” 20 “Don’t worry” 22 Less soaked 24 .com

alternative 25 Lose 27 “Already?” 29 Likely answer to “Who wants ice cream?” 30 Festival, in

Arabic

31 Awe and Tay,

for two

32 One to tip 34 Breading for

tonkatsu 35 Tortilla dough 36 Bring stress or

agitation to 37 ___ large 41 South American capital with the world’s longest urban gondola 44 Nuclear codes? 46 Zero out 47 Plead

48 Therein lies the

rub!

49 Bit of metadata 51 Wet weather

wear

53 Poet’s sphere 54 Coverer 56 Portion

57 Word with sitter

or steps

59 Good name for a black cat with white feet 61 Commander, in

Arabic

62 Mt. Fuji setting 63 1990s TV nerd 64 Is that what ewe

said? 65 Uber-enthusiast 66 Part of a child’s

bedtime ritual 67 Stale

Down

1 “That’s good”

thinking 2 “That’s good

thinking!” 3 Cutter

4 Rotten 5 Something heard secondhand? 6 Mother-of-pearl 7 “Parasite” actor

Woo-shik

8 Adds to the team, so to speak

9 Go (for) 10 Cookie-flavored

cereal 11 Fictional character partially inspired by Mexican folklore 12 Provide digital

approval

17 Apt rhyme for

chop and crop 21 Artist who said “A line is a dot that went for a walk”

23 Breaker

26 The “A” of A.Q.I. 28 Exhibited 31 Hardly strict 33 One to tip 34 Candy once marketed as a smoking cessation aid 36 Big tub

38 One name for the game depicted in this puzzle 39 Like Rome starting in the first century B.C. 40 Promo

42 “Rush!” 43 Perseus’ horse 44 Mousse

alternative 45 Bigwigs may

have big ones 46 Actress Margot

of “Bombshell” 47 Carnival

hypeman 49 Case of

emergency? 50 Clear

51 Geico

“spokeslizard” 52 “Nevertheless,

___ persisted” 55 Dessert wine 58 Himalayan ox 60 Foxy