The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Stallions’ mates 6 Starting from 10 Inflated selfimages 14 Engulfed (in) 15 Roman

garment of old 16 Trevor of “The

Daily Show” 17 Frank of the Mothers of Invention 18 Humpty

Dumpty’s perch 19 Cast a ballot 20 Imbibe

copiously 23 Tally

24 Snaky fish that can swim backward 25 Middle square

on a bingo card 26 Move speedily 31 “The Fox and the Crow” storyteller 34 Depend (on) 35 M.A. applicant’s

test

36 Go with the

___ 37 Persuades 39 “Yay! Tomorrow’s Saturday!” 40 Big bird in Liberty Mutual ads

41 Very many 42 Elements that make up the atmosphere 43 Toil arduously 47 Borscht

vegetable 48 Pecan or

almond

49 Ave.

crossers 52 Observe

intently 56 Numbskull 57 ___ Grey tea 58 Foxx with an Oscar for playing Ray 59 ___ call (attendance check) 60 Frosty

coating

61 Vital part of the stratosphere’s protective layer 62 “If all ___ fails

…”

63 “Shoo!” 64 Beauty’s fairy tale suitor, with “the”

Down

1 Japanese carmaker with a CX series 2 Oscar, Emmy

or Tony

3 Swift 4 “Monday Night Football” channel 5 Drastic

reorganization 6 Whenever one

wishes 7 Drench

8 Eye rudely 9 Pita sandwiches of deep-fried chickpea balls 10 Regarded with jealousy

11 Big fat

zeros 12 Swearing-in

pledge 13 “___-Ra: Princess of Power” (1980s animated series) 21 Hall-of-Fame

QB Dawson 22 Noisy scuffle 26 Noisy scuffle 27 Boiling mad 28 Piano part 29 One of the

Great Lakes 30 N.B.A. whistle

blowers

31 Not very many 32 Furry red

Muppet

33 Tart hard

candies 37 Crawls as a

snake would 38 Stir-fry pan 39 Kids’ chasing

game

41 Actor Guinness who portrayed Obi-Wan Kenobi 42 Found

employment 44 Water heater for tea

45 Bit of jewelry to wear with sandals 46 Needing to be

paid 49 American ___ (U.S. Pacific territory) 50 Siblings like Jacob and Esau 51 Shooting sport with clay targets 52 Cashmere or

angora 53 Nonclerical, at

a church 54 Filmdom’s la

Douce 55 Smoggy

overcast 56 Hip-hop’s Dr.

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