The New York Times
ACROSS
1 Make millions, say
8 Departed on a
flight
15 Opening in a pet
carrier
16 Tiny country in
the Pyrenees
17 Colorful rhyme for
gloomy weather
18 Colorful rhyme for
a “ginger”
19 Harmful reaction
to an infection
20 ::::::
21 Surveillance org.
23 ___ José, Costa
Rica
24 Colorful rhyme for a filming background
29 Copied
31 Church council
32 Lyra’s brightest
star
35 Go bananas
37 What a street musician may use to collect tips
38 Domain
39 “___ the season
...”
40 Sign seen at an S.P.C.A. center, perhaps
43 Outdo
44&46 Colorful rhyme for a 1966 Donovan hit
48 Hoppin’, as a party 49 Soccer star Hamm
50 Hot and spicy, as
salsa
54 Sticky notes
58 Colorful (albeit rare!) rhyme for an item at a hardware store
60 Finland joined it in
2023
61 Big name in
tractors
62 Ruckus
63 Grandson of
Adam
64 Pages that point
to other pages
65 Benjamin who wrote “The Tao of Pooh”
DOWN
1 Reacts to an awful
smell, maybe
2 Dublin’s land, to
Dubliners
3 “Piehole”
4 Matthew ___ of
“The Americans”
5 I, on the periodic
table
6 College catalog
assortment
7 “Watch it!”
8 Road goo
9 What an Uno player has in hand upon crying “Uno!”
10 Quirky person
11 Helmut ___, 1980s-’90s German chancellor
12 Cookie often
dipped in milk
13 ___ Drescher, leader of the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike
14 Passing crazes
22 “Be that as it may
...”
23 “Beam me up, ___!” (“Star Trek” misquotation)
24 Birds in a gaggle
25 Multivitamin stat,
for short
26 Cakewalk
27 Night before
28 “Swell!”
29 Back, to a
boatswain
30 Overly proper
33 What fireflies and
happy faces do
34 Bit of band
equipment
36 Mindy of “The
Mindy Project”
38 Hot dog topping
41 Partner of a
crossed “t”
42 Big name in cassette tapes, once
45 South American
grasslands
47 Not quite on time
50 Corn cake
51 Tehran’s land
52 Roman senator who insisted “Carthage must be destroyed”
53 Heaven on earth
54 Look carefully
(over)
55 Hooked on
56 What you might say as you crack open a beer
57 Medieval worker
59 Massive ref.