The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Scholarshipoffering grp.
5 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
41 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