The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Put in stitches 4 Medicinal liquid 9 Premium subscriptions often remove them

12 _ _ _ Today

13 Stands the test of time

15 Party bowlful 16 Blemish

17 One known for living large and getting stoned? 18 Monkey business? 19 Defeat by a show of hands, say

21 Tony ___, tennis champ of the 1950s

23 Espresso diluted with hot water 25 La ____ (neighborhood of San Diego)

28 Sorta

29 Works and works and works

33 1st-yr. law students

34 Forensic TV franchise

35 “Catch my drift?” 36 Carnival offerings 37 What “C” faucets are in Italy, confusingly 38 High-calorie dessert

39 April Fools’ exclamation 40 Serviceable 41 Fashionable, in France

44 Issue for a punter or field goal kicker

46 Own (up)

47 Tolstoy’s Karenina 48 Neighbors to keep up with

51 Polite assent 55 Russia’s ___ Mountains

56 Classic underdog 58 Big Ten addition announced in 2022 59 Facebook’s parent company

60 Lace work?

61 Give off

62 Luxurious 63 Missouri River tributary

64 “Sure … why not!”

DOWN

1 Kind of wrestling 2 Twin in Genesis 3 Blemish, so to speak

4 Govt. security 5 Wealthy nonworkers

6 Rapa ___ (Easter Island)

7 Scrooge’s clerk 8 Four: Prefix

9 Tool that’s a homophone of 9-Across

10 Big name in French fashion 11 Catch sight of 13 Flatters in order to boost selfesteem 14 Hoovervilles during the Great Depression, e.g. 20 Biblical site for the battle depicted in this puzzle

22 Hebrew Bible text with the story depicted in this puzzle

24 “This ___ unfair!” 25 Argentine writer ___ Luis Borges 26 Guacamole ingredient

27 Certain flat screen, in brief 30 Ramp taken by a skier

31 Many, informally 32 Win every game of a series 42 Familiar with 43 Makeup of

Joan Didion’s “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” 44 Wrong thing to say when you’re actually lying? 45 Anxious

48 Van Halen song that starts “I get up, and nothin’ gets me down” 49 Cookie in cookies ’n cream ice cream 50 Washington MLBers

52 Pinnacle

53 Touched down 54 Yoga class accessories 57 Routing word