NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Those out for

blood?

9 Geographical anagram of BOGOTA

15 “Supposedly”

16 Sustainable engineering field, informally 18 What Minnesota and Michigan are part of, but not Missouri

20 Writing of

Horace

21 It has a ring of 12 gold stars on a blue background, for short

22 Nas’s third studio album, after “Illmatic” and “It Was Written”

23 “Ah” follower

24 Get in trouble,

perhaps

25 Chucklehead

26 Obergefell v. ___, landmark Supreme Court decision of

2015

28 Article go-with 30 Go back

31 What a motorist often screws up?

35 Stations

39 Reference work in the public domain that’s updated weekly 42 K, for Kay

43 Flash sale

come-on

44 CBS series with a “Most Wanted” spinoff 45 “My!”

47 Hit list

49 Lead-in to ed.

or prof.

52 Broad views

56 Stiletto feature 57 Many people do this on January 1

58 Train workers? 59 Wheat variety

for a grain bowl 60 Web master,

with “the”

63 Colon’s place,

familiarly

64 It begins “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly” 65 “Nevertheless

...”

66 Pipit lookalikes

DOWN

1 Emotional assessment of one’s surroundings, in lingo

2 Unlikely trait for

a beekeeper

3 Snickers

alternative

4 Pluto, famously 5 “Ah” follower

6 With 55-Down,

gamble

7 Host

8 Capital known as Keijo before the 1940s

9 Bit of nonstick

cookware

10 Expanse on a Spanish explorer’s map 11 “Star Trek”

species 12 Greatly enjoyed,

with “up”

13 Spirits that

come in bottles 14 Razor name?

17 Biodegradable

bag material

19 Rams home?

24 “A Life for the ___” (Mikhail Glinka opera) 25 Person who comes across as toplofty

27 Achievements for Jennifer Hudson and Whoopi Goldberg, in brief

29 Winning by a

basket, say

32 Bringing down

the house

33 Org. with

guidelines

34 Where the

coxswain sits 36 Some lightweight protection

37 “In all honesty

...” 03/18/2023

38 Range on a

cosmetics chart 40 “___ … what?” 41 Destinations for many retiring soldiers

46 Get

recompense for 48 Drug trade?

49 ___ stage (concept in psychosexual development) 50 Where “talofa” and “tofa” mean “hello” and “goodbye” 51 Induce

53 Sides of a square, maybe: Abbr.

54 Longtime name in baseball cards

55 See 6-Down

58 Like swampland 59 Cut down

61 End of a series

in Canada

62 “What a ___!”