The New York Times

ACROSS 1 Reference point for nighttime navigation

5 Trim, as a photo

9 “Toodles!”

13 Sci-fi hero ___

Skywalker

14 Volcano output

15 Casper is a

friendly one

16 Not much

17 Actor Epps

18 Sounds from a sty

19 Tennis great with a sister who’s also a tennis great

22 Sought political

office

23 Ye ___ Shoppe

24 British royal crowned in May 2023

31 Tic-_ _ _-toe

32 AMC’s “Better Call

___”

33 Failed to

34 Cry on a roller

coaster

36 Rider’s handful

39 “Great” detective

of kid-lit

40 “It’s ___!” (classic “Frankenstein” line)

42 Come off as

44 Haw’s partner

45 First Latina justice, successor to David Souter

49 Exam for an aspiring atty. 50 Fury 51 Words before legal action … or what one might exclaim to 19-, 24- and 45-Across?

57 Material for LPs

59 Worker welfare

org.

60 CT scan

alternatives

61 Weeps

62 Edward ___, poet who wrote “The Owl and the Pussy-cat”

63 Frozen waffle

brand

64 Emulates Snoop

Dogg or Doja Cat

65 Small whirlpool

66 Eliot of the

Untouchables

DOWN

1 Serb, Slovene or

Slovak

2 Paper towel roll

leftover

3 Similar (to)

4 Part of a round

trip

5 Comically packed

circus vehicle

6 Actor Malek of “Bohemian Rhapsody”

7 Speed-skating

track shape

8 Word after beauty

or pizza

9 Adds one’s two

cents

10 Atoms with

charges

11 Pose, as a

question 12 Extra periods in

sports, in brief

15 Provoked

20 Gives in to gravity,

as a roof

21 Sick

24 Artist Frida renowned for her self-portraits

25 Strand, as during a

blizzard

26 Shade of color

27 Group of showbiz

elites

28 State whose license plates read “Famous Potatoes”

29 Prefix with continental or faith

30 Tabloid twosome

31 “___ the night before Christmas …”

35 Stares said to

inflict curses 37 Keanu Reeves’s role in “The Matrix”

38 For-prophet

institution?

41 Painting studio

stands

43 Podcast host

Maron

46 Pronounce

47 Peter of “Lawrence of Arabia”

48 Tower of London

guards

51 Hair salon sound

52 Previously owned

53 “If _ _ _ a nickel …”

54 Strongly

encourage

55 Fixes, as a carnival

game

56 General ___

chicken

57 TiVo forerunner

58 Nest egg fund, in

brief