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 “icelover 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