The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Italian sauce with meat and

tomatoes

5 Person seeking damages 9 Letter that’s only 25% of the way through the Greek alphabet, surprisingly 13 Cheers for banderilleros 14 Martial artist/actor who played the emperor of China in 2020’s “Mulan”

15 Good name for an

ophthalmologist 16“You and I should eat that” 18 Salmon, e.g.

19 Force out

20 Flowering plants associated with the Augusta National golf course

22 Utter

23 Actress Garr

25 Dating app description 26 Ki data college bar who seems, tome as a bouncer, too young to allow in 32 Palestinian president starting

in 2005

34 Place

35 Calendar box

36 Essential point

37 Bill worth billions

39 When most Geminis are born 40 Spoil

41 Dog breed whose coat

resembles dreadlocks 42 Drinks at soda shops 43 Easter item that the woman is

goingtodecorate

47 More, in Mexico

48 Short johns?

49 Nowhere to be found, informally

52 Risk territory bordering Siberia 56 Sponsored boys at baptisms 58 Desertlike 59 What the couple dressed in

lu pine costumes said

61 It’s worth zero in baccarat 62 Gets wind of

63 Land whose prime minister is

known as the Taoiseach 64 “For Pete’s ___!”

65 Stops waffling

66 Licks, maybe

DOWN

1 Hats, so to speak

2 Siri : Apple :: ___ : Amazon 3 Seat of Pennsylvania’s Adams

County

4 Losing team in the “Miracle

on Ice” hockey game

5 Harsh

6 Shoshonean language 7 Director Kazan

8 Little Nabisco crackers

9 Bag brand

10 Great Lakes port

11 Mother of Beyoncé and

Solange Knowles

12 Requests

14 Affected by ennui

17 Most Rwandans and

Burundians 21 Member of a support staff 24 Impart, as values

27 Dodgers might not pay it 28 “Jeopardy!” impossibility 29 XXX film

30 Speak hysterically

31 Batiking needs

32 High point

33 Talk big

37 “Tell me if you recognize me from just my voice and the feel of my hands over your eyes”

38 Last word of the Pledge of

Allegiance

39 Middle Brady family

daughter

41 Cool, in old slang

42 Botch

44 Photocopy flaw

45 Waiters at busy restaurants

might be handed them 46 Declares openly

50 Like helium

51 Sure-footed pack animals 52 Sure-footed pack animals 53 Number that’s often in Italian 54 Sharp twist, as in a hose 55 Remain fresh

57 Whole bunch

60 Tattletale