The New York Times Crossword Puzzle

NO. 0516 6/20/22

ACROSS

1 Stallions’ mates 6 Starting from 10 Inflated selfimages 14 Engulfed (in) 15 Roman garment

of old

16 Trevor of “The

Daily Show” 17 Frank of the Mothers of Invention 18 Humpty

Dumpty’s perch 19 Cast a ballot 20 Imbibe copiously 23 Tally

24 Snaky fish that can swim backward 25 Middle square on

a bingo card 26 Move speedily 31 “The Fox and

the Crow” storyteller 34 Depend (on) 35 M.A. applicant’s

test

36 Go with the ___ 37 Persuades 39 “Yay! Tomorrow’s

Saturday!”

40 Big bird in Liberty Mutual ads

41 Very many 42 Elements that make up the atmosphere 43 Toil arduously 47 Borscht

vegetable 48 Pecan or

almond

49 Ave. crossers 52 Observe intently 56 Numbskull

57 ___ Grey tea 58 Foxx with an Oscar for playing Ray

59 ___ call (attendance check)

60 Frosty coating 61 Vital part ofthe stratosphere’s protective layer

62 “If all ___ fails …” 63 “Shoo!” 64 Beauty’s fairy tale suitor, with “the”

DOWN

1 Japanese carmaker with a CX series

2 Oscar, Emmy or

Tony

3 Swift

4 “Monday Night

Football” channel 5 Drastic

reorganization 6 Whenever one

wishes

7 Drench

8 Eye rudely

9 Pita sandwiches of deep-fried chickpea balls 10 Regarded with

jealousy

11 Big fat zeros 12 Swearing-in

pledge

13 “___-Ra: Princess of Power” (1980s animated series) 21 Hall-of-Fame QB

Dawson

22 Noisy scuffle 26 Noisy scuffle 27 Boiling mad 28 Piano part

29 One of the Great

Lakes 30 N.B.A. whistle

blowers

31 Not very many 32 Furry red

Muppet

33 Tart hard candies 37 Crawls as a

snake would 38 Stir-fry pan 39 Kids’ chasing

game

41 Actor Guinness who portrayed Obi-Wan Kenobi 42 Found

employment 44 Water heater for

tea

45 Bit of jewelry to wear with sandals 46 Needing to be

paid

49 American ___ (U.S. Pacific territory) 50 Siblings like

Jacob and Esau 51 Shooting sport

with clay targets 52 Cashmere or

angora 53 Nonclerical, at a

church 54 Filmdom’s la

Douce

55 Smoggy overcast 56 Hip-hop’s Dr. ___