NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Singer Del Rey
5 Giant walking combat vehicle in “Star Wars” films
9 Stuffs
14 Not just occasionally
15 Blue shade
16 Without backup
17 Poppycock
18 Release, as a song, in modern lingo
19 “OK, you win”
20 Something directly following a penultimate position — that is to say, diametrically opposed to a primary one
23 Gracefully send away
24 Passing comment?
25 Girl group with the 1999 #1 album “Fanmail”
26 90s, say
31 Lie in the sun
34 L ike an Ov en
36 Demographic figure
37 “Bullet” in a food fight
38 Female kangaroo
39 Golden blades that may be tenderly chew’d by equine or bovine beings
44 None of it is good, as the saying goes
45 One committing insurance fraud, maybe
46 Prospector’s find
48 ___ Halles (central food market in Paris, once)
49 It may end with a reality check
53 The cat’s meow, baby. Dig?
57 Follower of pigs or cows
58 Be plentiful
59 In perpetuity
60 Country sound
61 Black-and-white swimmer
62 Name meaning “born again”
63 Shipment
64 Actor Damon
65 Till section
DOWN
1 Drink from a machine
2 Colorful kind of shirt
3 Common congestion points
4 Figure skater, for one
5 With more of the same sort
6 Donna ___, 2014 Pulitzer winner for “The Goldfinch”
7 Confess openly
8 Mistakke, of a sort?
9 Agreed to tie the knot
10 North African capital
11 Work
12 “That most odious and antisocial of all passions”: John Stuart Mill
13 Date
21 Pioneering I.S.P.
22 Four-star
26 Wiped out
27 Human rights lawyer Clooney
28 Number two
29 What crystal jellies do when disturbed
30 Views
31 ___ Men (one-hit wonder group of 2000)
32 Food thickener
33 Janitor’s janglers
35 Decides
40 Not doing a darn thing
41 Cry toward the end of a list
42 Source of some omega-3s
43 It may be rolled out for exercise
44 Competitor of
21-Down
47 Cartoonist Chast
49 Tape recorder button
50 Torn asunder
51 TV producer Chaiken
52 Funerary burners
53 Classic name in audio equipment
54 Shakespeare character who says “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is / To have a thankless child!”
55 Model in a science classroom
56 Computing prefix
57 Alternative to an ellipsis