The New York Times

ACROSS

1 Something a student may cut 6 Doesn’t bother 12 Team V.I.P.s 15 Author of “The Eagle and the Fox” and “The Fox and the Lion”

16 Where to watch the Lightning and Hurricanes 17 Porridge grain 18 Region that spans about 8% of the earth’s land area [Arabic] 20 Attempt 21 Rodin sculpture featuring a couple whose lips don’t quite touch

22 “My Gal ___” 23 Fencing option 24 Addams family

cousin

25 Body of water bordering Nevada and California [Washoe] 27 Actor McGregor 30 Biological molecule 32 Days past 33 Shakespearean fairy queen 34 Playground retort 37 Electricity bill datum 40 Landmark on which most U.S. radio stations base the starts of their call signs, with “W” on the east and “K” on the west [Algonquin] 43 Together (with) 44 Clay targets, informally 45 Official language of Ghana: Abbr. 46 Certain mattress material 48 Commonly torn band, for short 49 Excited about 50 Nation that shares an island with part of Indonesia [Indonesian] 54 Fall behind 56 Takes home 57 Governor DeSantis 58 Commercial spaces in an app 62 “Mud”

63 Like the names of 18-, 25-, 40- and 50- Across vis-àvis the bracketed languages 65 Undivided

66 Look away from 67 Wombs

68 Big fashion inits. 69 Some downtown street liners 70 Start over

DOWN

1 Dramatis personae portrayers 2 Actress and documentarian Remini

3 Arthur of the court

4 Be absorbed, as a marinade

5 Pole that extends a sail

6 Fellows

7 Prior to, in poetry

8 ___ Virtue, threetime world ice dancing champion

9 Sly sort

10 Grain in some hearty soup

11 Is French?

12 What all good children do, in a nursery rhyme 13 Penguins great Lemieux

14 Do, as hair

19 First M.L.B. team to use artificial turf in its stadium 23 Persian language 25 Eye-opening experience? 26 They might be guided

27 ___ Raducanu, 2021 U.S. Open women’s tennis champion

28 Cry out

29 What some workout videos promise

31 Loch ___ 34 Investigate persistently 35 Ape’s weapon in “Planet of the Apes” 36 International oil grp.

38 Fellow 39 Therefore 41 Little brats 42 “That’s sufficient, I guess”

47 It’s just an illusion 49 Take a lighter to

50 “Have fun!” 51 Long, long times 52 Get on

53 How ballerinas

often perform 55 Fortune tell 58 Some pub

brews

59 Freezes (over) 60 Scale button 61 Thin cut

63 Cook with a long history at Apple

64 Bobby of Bruins

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