The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Enhance, in a way
4 Is against
9 Lead-in to -genesis
12 A famous one begins “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”
13 Dustin’s sweetheart on “Stranger Things”
14 Palindromic family member
15 O-O-O part
16 Queen consort starting in 2022
18 Imitated
19 What might come between May and December?
21 Not widely known
23 Part of a furniture joint
24 Specialist in family medicine, in brief
27 Shade-tolerant perennial
28 Bone-related prefix
29 “Woo-___!”
30 Made a contented sound
31 Bank deposits?
34 National park that’s home to the Narrows
37 Synonym found after deleting half the letters of EXHILARATE
38 Taiwanese president ___ Ing-wen
42 Skinny
43 Bishop’s topper, to Brits
44 Feels bad
45 “Be mindful when
clicking,” in brief
46 Shaped like this puzzle’s subject
47 Queer community inits.
48 Currency once pegged to the U.S. dollar
51 Enthusiastic
52 “Good answer!”
53 Colorless
55 Apple Music heading
57 “The Story of ___” (1975 film by François Truffaut)
59 Like the parts of this puzzle’s toy, as depicted throughout the grid
63 “Later!”
64 Later
65 Iberian greeting
66 Where tabs are kept
67 It flows from the Alps to the Mediterranean 68 Made one’s mark?
DOWN
1 With 58-Down, classic toy that dropped gendered titles in 2021
2 “Better late than never” and “Better safe than sorry”
3 Dressed, say
4 Urgent letters
5 Bring down, with “out”
6 Rap’s Lil ___ Vert
7 Dusk-dawn connector
8 Ward of Hollywood
9—
10 Kind of shoe for a ballerina
11 Cry from a goner
16 Equipment for an Olympic slalom or sprint
17 Nirvana achiever
20 Makes little progress
22 The Outer Banks or the Jersey Shore, e.g.
24 Winner of 10 World Series of Poker bracelets
25 Deeply asleep, hyperbolically
26 They can be epic or lyric
32 Exceptionally driven sort
33 Wanting
34 Certain red, for short
35 Line-skipping assets
36 Slightly misaligned
39 Building that maintains train operations
40 Bishop’s vestment
41 Natural finish?
49 Not quick to react
50 Source of milk
51 Olympic marathon powerhouse
54 Detroit’s ___ Isle Park
55 Songwriter Barry who once had six consecutive #1 hits
56 Leave a mark
57 Pulitzer-winning author whose name is found in nonconsecutive letters of “page turner”
58 See 1-Down
60 Former title for 16-Across: Abbr.
61 Bother
62 Diarist Anaïs