The New York Times Crossword Puzzle

ERICA HSIUNG WOJCIK AND MATTHEW STOCK NO. 0421

1 5 41

ACROSS

Scholarshipoffering grp. Drink company with a wave in its logo

15 “Blech!”

16 Beefy filling 17 Attempt

18 Jorge Luis Borges vis-à-vis William Faulkner or Franz Kafka 19 Lengua with a

tilde

21 Took in

22 ___ al-Haytham, medieval mathematician called “the father of modern optics” 23 Concerning, with

“of”

25 Low notes? 26 Power ender 27 Scatter

31 Horror actor

Lugosi 33 Noncommittal

assent 37 Obsolescent twoin-one device Certain spokenword performer 42 Draped garment 43 Red-eye

ingredient 47 Oscar or Felipe, to Miguel, in Pixar’s “Coco” 48 Number ones,

e.g.

51 Was out of one’s league, so to speak 53 Landmark 1990 antidiscrimination legislation, for short

54 Type

57 More than 75% of Finland, environmentally 59 Where servers work around the clock

62 Ici : French :: ___ :

Spanish

63 “OK, there’s something puzzling me …” 64 Spin 65 Shredded 66 Clod busters

DOWN

1 Trade letters 2 Finalizes

business (with) 3 Unaccompanied,

in a way

4 Great, in Arabic 5 They’re armed to

the gills

6 Former N.B.A.

All-Star Boozer 7 Period of one’s

life, in TikTok talk 8 Actress Gunn of

“Breaking Bad” 9 Sticks together? 10 Something’s off

with this

11 “This is your brain on drugs” spot, e.g., in brief

12 Two to one, e.g. 13 Mexican

marinade 14 Fabulist’s

fabulations 20 Go-ahead

24 Like a roast pig 25 High lands 26 Kindergarten

stuff

28 It’s not you, it’s

me

29 1920 play from which the word “robot” comes 30 Needle, in a way 32 Number one

spots

34 That’s just the

way it is

35 What’s the Word? 36 Cuyahoga Valley National Park setting

38 Co. famous for its

trucks

39 Cut (off)

40 ___ Lingus 44 Best-kept 45 They’ve got bills for their newborns 46 “Jingle Bells”

contraction 48 Lost all patience 49 Home of the Sawtooth Wilderness 50 Turkic language 52 “No more than passing from one room into another,” per Helen Keller 54 “Law & Order:

SVU” actor 55 Mother of

Artemis

56 Many a handle 58 Confessor’s

confessions 60 One of 17 spaces on a Monopoly board: Abbr. 61 Half a cocktail