The New York Times Crossword

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

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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

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

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