The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Line just above “total,” maybe 4 Place for three men of verse 10 Mideast site of conflict 14 That: Sp.
15 “Nothing doing”
16 Series of courses 17 Response to a baby
animal picture 18 Asymmetrical crustacean 20 Like many tournaments 22 Swiss river
23 ___ discount
24 Creature whose scientific name translates to “ice-lover from Greenland” 26 Game island represented
by hexagonal tiles
28 Like a planet’s path 29 Reason to take a
back road, maybe
31 ___ mater (brain cover) 32 Testify
34 North America’s heaviest
flying bird
40 Boldly stylish, in slang 41 Comics sound
43 Pastries usually accompanied
by chutney
46 Like a final, desperate
attempt
50 Romantic infatuation
51 Zazu from “The Lion King,”
e.g.
52 Store posting: Abbr. 53 Pulitzer-winning author who was also a film critic for Time magazine 56 Salt, at times
57 Mistakes in baseball ... or what 18-, 24-, 34- and 51-Across might produce?
60 Rumpus
61 Running shoe brand 62 Jhumpa ___, Pulitzer-winning author of “Interpreter of Maladies”
63 “___ better to have loved
and lost ...”
64 Telegraph, say
65 Safari pest
66 Time for Paris’s 2024
Jeux Olympiques
DOWN
1 Where many bags of
leaves can be found 2 “Cross my heart!” 3 Energizing snack
4 Overrun
5 “Beats me”
6 What the 1660s Pascaline machine, named for Blaise Pascal, could do 7 ___ wave
8 Sch. that once used a live bear as a mascot during football games 9 Ingredient in
some batter
10 Big name in trucks 11 Make bubbly
12 Mideast spice blend
13 State capital once home
to Herman Melville
19 Pause to play?
21 Measure of print quality:
Abbr.
25 Trees in the birch family 27 Once again
29 Certain racing wear
30 ___ anglais (English horn) 33 More quickly?
35 Sightings of them can be
reported on the Enigma app 36 Unlucky accident
37 Sweet ___
38 Renounce
39 Stuck the landing
42 Place for soap?
43 Most common vowel
sounds in English
44 Achieve widespread
recognition
45 Cotton material
47 Calls for delivery
48 Attire for a toddler 49 Baseball stat
51 Actress Anne of
“Wag the Dog”
54 Coated with gold
55 List on display at the airport 58 ___ jokes
59 Popular song