NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Gives some badly needed help?

6 Kind of card 10 Laughfest 14 Sound of the South

15 Garnish for a Moscow mule 17 High home 18 Scrubland danger

19 Little white toy 21 Who wrote “In Memory of W. B. Yeats”

22 Star’s place 23 Roof-edge defenses

27 Ones best in show? 32 Endeavor

34 Bone to pick 35 Not to

36 Wear

37 Turn down 38 Mammal that can hold its breath up to eight minutes 40 “___ destiny unshunnable, like death”: “Othello”

41 Original cause 43 Father figure 44 Good beverage for a blustery fall day 47 Granturismo maker 48 ___ the Enchanter, role in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” 51 What meat and dairy both lack 54 Dad’s hangout, maybe

56 “You pick” 60 Decline in military activity?

61 Person who’s really sweet and soft

62 Log

63 “Who ___?” 64 Quinceañera celebrant: Abbr. 65 Like the sound of a clarinet

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1 Oleta of soul 2 Snap, crack or pop, maybe

3 Fall farming headache 4 Turkey

5 Event that goes all night

6 Real name of George VI 7 Plunger into the Pacific Ocean in 2001

8 Creature that can fill the blank in L___R to make another creature

9 Check alternatives

10 Worthless stuff 11 Brief confession

12 Oni, in Japanese folklore 13 Quinceañera celebrant, e.g. 16 Query that might follow some grumbling 20 Sound

24 One involved in a dispute

25 It’s measured in both feet and meters

26 She sounds just like you!

28 Relieve (of) 29 Finish, to an oenophile

30 101 word in both Spanish and French

31 Put in an order 32 Actor Green

33 Three for the show?

37 First and only president of the Republic of Hawaii

39 Make fast 42 Corporate workplace division, for short 43 Something often served with shakshuka 45 Make ___

46 Snap out of it? 49 Like the walls of an old church, maybe

50 Gay

51 Conforms

52 “The right” thing

53 Word with shop or shot

55 Cup alternative, at times 57 Network with shows on Paramount+

58 ___ Lingus 59 Singer in the family?