The New York Times Crossword Puzzle
NO. 0916 10/21/22
ACROSS
1 Poles have them
8 Dern of cinema
13 Sugar refinery byproduct
15 Tending to dominate
16 Savor the moment
18 ___ finish
19 Fulani braid decoration
20 “I’ll be with you in a jiffy”
22 “It could happen”
25 Goal-oriented final match, in brief?
28 Vapor trail?
29 In the altogether
32 Like playing cards
37 Word with PET or CAT
38 Sounds of bells
40 Turning point
41 Driven, say
43 Classic pop
45 Dovish declaration?
47 Disco diva Gloria
48 Making paper flowers, e.g.
54 Thinks of something
55 “Platoon,” but not “Dunkirk”
59 Immediate threat to capture, in a game of Go
60 Exemplar of stick-to-itiveness
63 Battlefield figure
64 Behold a sunrise, say
65 Essay writing, e.g.
66 Somewhat hardboiled
DOWN
1 Film site
2 Heart
3 Actress Zoe Kazan’s grandfather
4 Treat with a hook
5 Pose
6 Wave function symbol
7 Committed to
8 Used a cuttingedge surgical technique on
9 “Woe!”
10 Kate on the cover of Vanity Fair’s 100th anniversary issue
11 Music label named for a pachyderm
12 Oldest restaurant chain in America, founded in 1919
14 ___ wave
17 Longbottom at Hogwarts
21 Mentions, casually
23 Proudly LGBTQ+
24 Toddler’s “Carry me!”
25 Yawl pole
26 Leading role in “Being the Ricardos”
27 [Like that!]
30 Unbeaten feats
31 Knack for notes
33 “Hey, hold your horses!”
34 Nerve fiber
35 Venetian resort
36 Bygone Winter Palace resident
39 Herb burned in a cleansing ritual
42 Be cordial 44 Monterey runner
46 Big name in nail polish
48 G.O.A.T. material 49 Letterboxd or Yelp user, perhaps
50 Roasted: Sp.
51 Anna of “Mom”
52 French egg
53 Country where almost half the world’s zippers are made
56 Jai ___
57 Ruffle
58 Chess prodigy protagonist of “The Queen’s Gambit”
61 Prefix with conscious
62 Big name in outdoor gear