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