The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 The earth before God separated light from darkness, according to the Bible
6 Gives a terrible
review
10 Hip-hop subgenre pioneered by Gucci Mane
14 Like the deities Vishnu and Brahma
15 Street sign near
a school
16 Where the heart
is, in a saying
17 Face-off in a 2004 science fiction film
20 Sick
21 Dah’s counterpart, in Morse code
22 Condition that exists on a spectrum
23 See 44-Across 24 Some office
plants
26 Face-off in a 2021 monster film
32 Sky-blue
33 Section of a textbook
34 [Now I’m mad!] 36 “This statement is false,” e.g.
38 Inner circle 41 Before, in poetry 42 Green movement?
44 With 23-Across, period that began in January 2009 45 Face-off in a 1979 courtroom drama film 49 Chekhov’s “Uncle ___”
50 Some amount 51 State as fact 54 Benchmark:
Abbr.
55 Cry out loud
58 Command that could be given to the title characters in
17-, 26- and 45-Across?
62 Like Iran vis-à-vis
Iraq
63 What grows on
Pinocchio
64 Exercise, as
influence
65 Renaissance
instrument
66 Contacted on Twitter or Instagram, informally
67 Full of the latest
DOWN
1 Spiced tea
2 Locale for Jack
and Jill
3 Indigo plant
4 Keats specialty
5 Like some shriveled tomatoes
6 “Hey, you!”
7 Hiking locale in
Switzerland
8 Neither’s partner
9 Vouches for the
truth of
10 “Oh, really?”
11 Flatbread from
India
12 Singer Tori
13 Wavy do
18 Lab glass
19 Showy basket
23 Poet Pound
24 Enthusiast
25 Kicks out
26 Open wide
27 Missouri’s ___
Mountains 28 Artist Albrecht of the German Renaissance
29 Opulence 30 Google ___ Viewer (tool for charting word frequency over time)
31 Filth
35 Caboose
37 Good thing to keep when trying something new
39 Razed 40 Website that says “Shop by category”
43 Utility org. created in F.D.R.’s New Deal
46 Fly
47 Comma, colon
or apostrophe
48 Singer Perry
51 One of Adam’s
sons
52 German
woman’s title
53 Suffix with
Oktober
54 Flew
55 Crockpot dish
56 Birds that symbolize wisdom
57 Main section of a letter
59 “Ground control
to Major ___ ...”
60 Consumption
61 180° turn,
informally