NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 They often come in shoeboxes
9 Key
13 Widespread rumors, in a portmanteau 15 It’s handled at a bar
16 Post-crisis baseline
17 Like the second movement of Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony 18 Family nickname
19 “The ultimate form of free speech,” to Denis Leary
21 ___ tape
22 Streaked
24 Not sit still
26 Died down
29 Tony Stark or Jack Sparrow feature
31 Meet
34 Macgyvering 36 Gets less green, say 38 Mathematical subgroup
39 Puffed up
40 Possible response to “Did you find it?”
43 Some records, informally 44 Remington of 1980s TV
45 Actor Fitch of “This Is Us” 47 As yet
49 Parts of LEDS
53 Berkeley, familiarly 54 In working order 57 ___-Saintmichel, abbey site in France 58 Flattens, in a way 60 Underlying reason
62 Saul Bellow’s “The Adventures of ___ March” 63 Beyoncé’s “Dangerously in Love” or John Lennon’s “Imagine” 64 Gem used in intaglio
65 They are felt every April
DOWN
1 Slight faults, to a rater 2 Reluctant to join?
3 Words after god or man
4 ___ Coleman, eight-time Mr. Olympia 5 Kerfuffle 6 “Thanks a lot!,” in intentionally butchered French
7 ___ belt
8 Ananda Mahidol became its king at the age of 9, while living in Switzerland 9 Spanish diminutive
10 Pay for a crime, say
11 “Oh, come on, can’t you take a joke?!”
12 Biblical figure said to have died at the age of 905
14 Sign in front of some bars
15 Trickster
20 Stepping away from screens 23 Lunchbox option, informally 25 Silences 27 Concupiscent one
28 Appliance giant founded in England in 1991 30 They’re sometimes replaced by applesauce in vegan recipes 31 Strikes out, slangily
32 “See ya!”
33 Branch of causality that comes from the Greek for “study of the end”
35 Mortgage deal, for short
37 Like many defendants in court
41 Word with escape or escalator 42 Camp-y retailer?
46 ___ Peninsula (Horn of Africa) 48 Rabbit ___
50 “The origin of wisdom,” per René Descartes 51 Follow
52 Asparagus, essentially
53 “See ya!”
55 Eject
56 Actress Kirke of “Mozart in the Jungle”
59 Shoot down
61 One in line at an
airport