The New York Times
ACROSS
1 They often come
in shoeboxes
9 Key
13 Widespread rumors, in a portmanteau
15 It’s handled at a
bar
16 Post-crisis
baseline
17 Like the second movement of Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony
18 Family nickname
19 “The ultimate form of free speech,” to Denis Leary
21 ___ tape
22 Streaked
24 Not sit still
26 Died down
29 Tony Stark or Jack
Sparrow feature
31 Meet
34 MacGyvering
36 Gets less green,
say
38 Mathematical
subgroup
39 Puffed up
40 Possible response to “Did you find it?”
43 Some records,
informally
44 Remington of
1980s TV
45 Actor Fitch of
“This Is Us”
47 As yet
49 Parts of LEDs 53 Berkeley,
familiarly
54 In working order
57 _ _ _-Saint-Michel, abbey site in France
58 Flattens, in a way
60 Underlying reason
62 Saul Bellow’s “The Adventures of ___ March”
63 Beyoncé’s “Dangerously in Love” or John Lennon’s “Imagine”
64 Gem used in
intaglio
65 They are felt every
April
DOWN
1 Slight faults, to a
rater
2 Reluctant to join?
3 Words after god or
man
4 ___ Coleman, eight-time Mr. Olympia
5 Kerfuffle
6 “Thanks a lot!,” in intentionally butchered French
7 ___ belt
8 Ananda Mahidol became its king at the age of 9, while living in Switzerland
9 Spanish diminutive
10 Pay for a crime,
say
11 “Oh, come on, can’t you take a joke?!”
12 Biblical figure said to have died at the age of 905
14 Sign in front of
some bars
15 Trickster
20 Stepping away
from screens
23 Lunchbox option
informally
25 Silences
27 Concupiscent one
28 Appliance giant founded in England in 1991
30 They’re sometimes replaced by applesauce in vegan recipes
31 Strikes out,
slangily
32 “See ya!”
33 Branch of causality that comes from the Greek for “study of the end”
35 Mortgage deal, for
short
37 Like many defendants in court
41 Word with escape
or escalator
42 Camp-y retailer?
46 ___ Peninsula
(Horn of Africa)
48 Rabbit ___
50 “The origin of wisdom,” per René Descartes
51 Follow
52 Asparagus,
essentially
53 “See ya!”
55 Eject
56 Actress Kirke of “Mozart in the Jungle”
59 Shoot down
61 One in line at an
airport