NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Sonic boom generator?
5 “Curious George” channel
8 Puts on, perhaps
12 Motion propellers
13 Chris of “The Super Mario Bros. Movie”
15 Going rate?
16 N.L. East team
17 “Vive ___!”
18 Wishy-washy words
19 English rock band with a string section, for short 20 Post-mortem exam
22 Word before drum or trumpet
23 Acting dangerously, like this puzzle’s subject 26 Forever and ever
27 Company with a pine tree and mountains in its logo
28 “Otello,” for one
29 “Otello” composer
30 Something to believe in, informally
31 Married a woman, archaically
32 Lake home to the cryptid “Bessie”
33 Places of respite
35 “Hogwash!”
36 “___ puns are a rare medium well done” (dad joke)
38 Super-celebrities
40 “Hotel Transylvania” nickname
42 Kiss in Kent
43 R&B trio with the album “Crazysexycool”
46 One way for a co. to raise money
47 “Go you!”
48 Abbr. that completes “_ea_ _oon”
51 Style that’s long behind
53 Rapper with the 2007 hit “Lip Gloss”
55 Alphabetically first in a set of 12
56 ___ hijacking, another term for “typosquatting” 58 Hunt in spy films
59 That’s the key!
60 “Dominus illuminatio
___” (Oxford’s motto)
61 Prey for an arctic fox
62 State that’s approximately trapezoidal: Abbr.
63 Group cleared by this puzzle’s subject, depicted literally
64 Late start?
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1 2012 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis single with the lyric “I can’t change even if I tried”
2 Pencils not used for writing
3 Punny advice to this puzzle’s subject
4 Jerk
5 One of three South African capitals
6 Certain member of the House of Lords
7 Rhythm-interrupting jazz technique
8 Back
9 Description of this puzzle’s subject
10 Is a no-body?
11 Some promotional material 13 Charging station feature
14 “The Addams Family” nickname
20 “___ Mack” (2010s Disney show)
21 Cry of pain
24 “That it is”
25 Noted feature of “The
Brothers Karamazov”
33 So-called “African unicorn”
34 Part of Egypt that’s in Asia
37 One of Microsoft’s “core fonts”
39 Creator of Sherlock Holmes
41 State capital with the nickname “Arch City”
42 Paper handed out as a matter of course?
43 Cargo hauler
44 Slip
45 Pasting prompt
48 Lake that feeds the Truckee River
49 Lilliputian
50 Bit of comic book art
52 Item missing in “business casual”
54 Original “Are You the One?” channel
57 “T_RN,” for “No U-turn,” e.g.