The New York Times
ACROSS
1 Positive particles
8 Fending (off)
15 Brand X
16 Precipice of exposed bedrock
17 & 18 Emmywinning “Ugly Betty” actress
19 Festive French season
20 Goddess often depicted holding a staff of papyrus
21 Lunch with Skippy, briefly?
24 Tricky thing to get caught in
25 Nabokov’s longest novel
26 QB Newton who popularized dabbing
29 Ate away 31 Author of “An Inconvenient Truth”
33 Spelling of “BH90210”
34 Enlighten 38 Deeply regrets
39 65-Across justifiers, in a saying
40 Year, in ancient Rome
41 “The Queen’s Gambit” actress Taylor-Joy
42 Newswoman Paula
44 Remark further
45 Sondheim’s “___ the Woods”
46 Fellows
47 When viewed
50 ___-runner (bootlegger)
52 One calling you out, perhaps
53 Bunch of numbers for crunching
54 N.B.A.’s ___ Ming 55 Charge
56 Come over the top, in poker
57 Certain camera, for short
58 Journalist ___ Rogers St. Johns
60 Path of a pop-up
61 Threepio’s “Star Wars” companion
63 Site of a Massachusetts tourist shop named “Witch Way Gifts”
64 Nothing
65 See 39-Across
66 Amazon voice assistant
67 Actor Billy ___ Williams
68 Shopping ___
DOWN
1 ___ Tour
2 Sleep stage, in brief
3 Unified
4 Bird on a beach
5 Baltimore bird
6 “Great thinking!”
7 Common bathroom device
8 Bulgaria’s capital
9 They always come 48 hours before Thanksgiving
10 Relating to a heart chamber
11 Some old tape players, briefly
12 Wrath
13 Here/there go-between
14 Transcript fig.
21 Court great Sampras
22 Prize for third place
23 Oscar-winning director of “Get Out”
26 Grand Ole Opry performer … or a hint to 17-/18-Across and 23- and 36-Down
27 “Can we talk privately?”
28 Bit of Southwest topography
30 Share juicy gossip
32 2008 Clint Eastwood film “___ Torino”
35 Half of a double helix
36 Grammy-winning singer of “Little Things”
37 Chocolate treat on a stick
43 Rhyming descriptor for Obama
45 Groups fixing computer crashes, for short
46 Scar’s brother in “The Lion King”
48 Scot’s refusal 49 “Mama ___ Crazy,” 1984 hit by the Judds
51 Gloomy
59 “Superman” antagonist ___ Luthor
62 Dem.’s opposite