The New York Times

Edited by Will Shortz No. 0224

ACROSS

1 ___ Jean Covey, protagonist of Jenny Han’s “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before”

5 Has a grate voice?

10 Perfume named

after a pop star

14 In time

16 [I’m right here,

you know]

17 Period before sunset with ideal lighting for photography

18 Lets go of

19 Faint reactions?

20 Pink-headed mushroom in Mario games

22 The cab’s here!

24 Unbeatable

25 “Be reasonable”

28 Fly catcher

29 Org. that regulates fertilizers

30 Feline hybrids

34 Winner of Wimbledon five consecutive times between Ashe and McEnroe

36 Historic husband

of Claudia Octavia

38 Still learning,

maybe

39 Coast

40 Symbol of life

41 Love scene? 43 Its influences include the Cuban mambo and Jamaican mento

44 Cousin of a

mariposa lily

46 Made a sound

with a flute

48 Ripostes

51 Big brand of

coolers

52 Cook for Easter,

maybe

54 Yanks

58 “Goodness!”

59 What requires a charge to use, in two senses

61 Take ___

62 What may go to waste? No! What waste may go to

63 Small tips

64 Tony and Grammy

winner Mitchell

65 Oversupply

DOWN

1 Staying power

2 State

3 Big move, for

short

4 Basketball player’s cry while being fouled on the shot

5 Takes the lead in a

team project

6 “So exciting!!!”

7 Opening

8 Hybrid fruit akin

to an aprium

9 Dark grape variety

10 Marathon markers

of sorts 11 Disclaimer before an uncomfortable question

12 Landlord’s

concern

13 “Couldn’t eat

another bite”

15 12-Down

participant

21 Person who’s left,

for short?

23 “That’s so kind”

25 “Fast X” actor

John

26 Time of year for

hunting

27 Price to pay, say

31 Cop to

32 ___ Lieberman, former WNBA player and coach known as “Lady Magic”

33 Fashion items that

may be a bit steep

35 Adjective that,

when its lone vowel is doubled, becomes an advocacy organization

37 Emphatic assent

42 Things that might hurt you to the core?

45 Marble, e.g.

47 Tough work

schedule

48 Lion : pride :: ___

: crash

49 Opera about an

opera singer

50 Who says?

53 Asian honorific

55 Noodle sometimes eaten with mentsuyu sauce

56 “Two steps ahead

of you”

57 Sight on a Hawaiian lava flow

60 Univ. overlooking

the Hudson River