NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Officially
accepted works 6 Follow orders
10 Section of grass-covered dirt
13 Be melodramatic on stage
14 Actor Carell of
“The Office”
15 Wonderment
16 Q.U.E.U.E.S.
18 The “N” of
N.Y.C.
19 Opera highlight 20 Direction of the
morning light
21 Site to buy and
sell handicrafts 22 Share, as a
Twitter post
24 Barack, Michelle, Sasha or Malia
27 E+X+T+R+A+S 31 Seventh planet
from the sun
34 Money for a
mortgage
35 Salt Lake City
collegian
36 Longer-lasting nail polish options
37 Highest number
on a die
38 Give credit in a
footnote
39 “Wonder Woman” star Gadot
40 Places to relax while getting all steamed up? 42 Himalayan country that’s home to the world’s highest unclimbed mountain
44 W/H/E/E/L/S 47 Lamb’s cry
48 Continuously
52 Floating marker on a swim course
54 Prussia’s ___
von Bismarck 56 Get smaller, as
the moon
57 ___-compliant (wheelchairaccessible, say) 58 D-R-E-A-M-S
61 Neither’s
partner
62 Prove helpful
63 School vacation 64 Finale
65 Calendar boxes 66 In a strange way
DOWN
1 Fragrant wood
2 Love, to
Michelangelo
3 Cry heard at the start of a game of tag
4 Residents of Canada’s capital
5 Once named
6 Redding who sang “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay”
7 Compartmented Japanese lunch 8 Allhallows ___
9 “I’d love to!”
10 Costume for St.
Nick
11 Is behind
financially
12 Like grass on a
misty morning 14 Bluish gray hue 17 Owners’ papers 21 Bird that can sprint up to 30 m.p.h.
23 Alternative to
.com and .org 25 Feathery
neckwear
26 Raggedy ___
(doll)
28 Classification for the barely famous
29 “At Last” singer
James
30 Sighted
31 Popular brand of sheepskin boots
32 Authentic
33 Train
conductor’s cry 5/2/2022
37 “Lamentably …” 38 Bit of foul
language
40 “That’s all ___
wrote”
41 Split ___ soup 42 Hatchlings for a
43-Down
43 Coop mother 45 Sneaky
46 Spy’s gathering 49 Recorded on
cassette
50 15-time N.B.A. All-star Shaquille
51 Nettlesome
52 ___ of one’s
existence
53 Thick Japanese
noodle
55 The one right
here
58 Father
59 Director
Duvernay
60 “Game of
Thrones” airer