NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
1 Blown away
5 Black Widow’s former org. 8 Off-roaders, for short
12 Style of René Lalique’s glasswork 13 Fair-hiring inits. 14 Campaign to increase Election Day participation 16 Unidentified, informally
17 Key worker?
20 –
22 When one might show one’s age, informally
23 Tribute of a sort 24 House of reps? 25 Seven-___ (worst hand in Texas hold ’em)
26 Alternative to paper or plastic 29 Shapeshifts 30 Figure in a house listing 31 Exactamundo 34 Temporary, controlled power shutdown … or a hint to reading four of this puzzle’s answers
40 Jimmy Carter’s Secret Service code name
41 News stand? 42 Pale in comparison? 46 Liqueur in some coffee cocktails, familiarly 48 Foil, e.g.
49 Very quick point 51 Green standard 52 Org. opposed to “speciesism” 53 Activities that relieve psychological stress
56 Rugged dirt track racers 58 Extremely, informally
60 –
61 A-number-one 62 In ___ (completely) 63 Certain sodas, for short
64 Spot that’s hardly spotless
65 Annual multimedia festival, informally
DOWN
1 Poet laureate Limón
2 Suddenly fell through, as a plan 3 Green booking 4 Fait accompli 5 French military cap 6 Flipping out
7 Like suspicious eyes
8 Openly proclaim 9 One in a onesie 10 Twitch streamer with a digital avatar, say 11 Parody
15 –
18 Awards show recognition, informally 19 Bartender’s stock 21 Something that’s designed to be buggy?
25 “Je pense, ___ je
suis”: Descartes 26 Blacken
27 Spanish gold 28 Doubleday who didn’t really invent baseball
29 2016 title role for
Auli‘i Cravalho 32 Pioneer in color TV
broadcasting
33 See the world 35 Named, in brief 36 Caffeine-containing ingredients once used in soft drinks 37 Theater section for Statler and Waldorf, on “The Muppet Show” 38 About-face 39 Gridiron stats 42 Nile reptiles 43 Carried away by the tide
44 Drag race conveyance
45 Poker call
47 Event for a unicorn, perhaps, in brief
49 ___ Theatres
50 They might be checked at a restaurant
53 GPS figs.
54 Game with a
rhyming name 55 –
57 Having just
dropped
59 Crew directive