NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Take on, as debt 6 Got on in years 10 Part to play in a

play

14 Get a run or a

goal

15 Remedy

16 Taylor Swift’s 2023-24 ___ Tour

17 Accord, Civic or

CR-V

18 Part of the eye that shares its name with a rainbow goddess

19 Suffix for a

celebration 20 Kids’ chasing game with head taps

23 “Rugrats” dad

___ Pickles 25 You, in French 26 Midsections of

human bodies 27 Off Broadway musical made into a 2021 film directed by LinManuel Miranda 31 Proportion 32 Joints exercised by a 56-Across dancer 33 “Kapow!” 36 Steel component 37 Paint layers 39 Warsaw native 40 Average, in golf 41 Chess piece shaped like a battlement 42 Leader of a meeting … or that leader’s seat

43 Reply to “Three cheers!” 46 Without a doubt 49 Note acknowledging a debt 50 Broadband

hookup initials 51 Soothing words 55 Fixed price 56 Hawaiian dance

style 57 Scratches (at) 60 Yours and mine 61 Very much

62 Ice house 63 Devious scheme 64 Something to

whistle 65 Superior and

Victoria, for two

DOWN

1 “... or just

about”

2 Sgt. or cpl. 3 Official on a train … or for an orchestra 4 Language of

Pakistan

5 Be visibly

affected by 6 Opposite of basic, in chemistry 7 Revered expert 8 Prince beloved by Ariel in “The Little Mermaid” 9 Many office

computers 10 Turn over a

new leaf, say 11 Popular cremefilled cookies 12 Rope weapon for Wonder Woman

13 ___ Park, Colo. 21 Fish in a Japanese water garden

22 Sticky, drippy

substances 23 Bacon slice 24 Pageant crown 28 Extended family 29 Military fabric

shade 30 Chomped down

on

33 Property next to

Go in Monopoly 34 Pseudonym 35 Streep with an A.F.I. Life Achievement Award 37 Relative of “Roger,” in radio transmissions 38 “___-la-la!” 39 Brothy noodle dish in Vietnamese cuisine

41 Make angry 42 Advisory

committee 43 Charge of religious unorthodoxy 44 Villain on the

high seas 45 Gardener’s sodchopper 46 Barber’s razor

sharpener

47 Big name in

moving vans 48 Old-school chic 52 Netflix

competitor 53 Musk of Tesla 54 Tokarczuk who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature 58 Deep sorrow 59 “Rescue us!”