The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Stuff in a party bag
5 Shade of black
8 More than once
13 Use a cleaning cloth on
14 Common mixer
15 Sense of purpose
16 Fails to be
17 Nuisance
18 Gave (out)
19 Paradoxical answer to “What is ‘Golf’ in the NATO alphabet?”
22 Give (out)
23 Emcees’ deliveries
27 Paradoxical answer to “Can you say what ‘nyet’ is Russian for?”
30 Shadow, e.g.
33 Overhead light?
34 Architect who lived to
be 102
35 Boast
36 Seems lit from within
38 Flexed
39 Fell
40 Suffix with cyclo
41 Meanders
42 Paradoxical answer to “Where does oil come from?”
46 Comedian Aziz
47 What cheating might
get you, informally
50 Paradoxical answer to
“What isle is located between Ireland and Great Britain?”
54 View from a periscope
57 Word before run and
stretch
58 Little wonder?
59 “La Campanella”
composer
60 Surf sound
61 London transport, with
“the”
62 Some plus-ones
63 Boom times
64 Hurried
DOWN
1 Big drink
2 None the ___
3 Breath control practice in competitive freediving
4 “See?”
5 Woman in a Lady
Gaga song and album title (2016)
6 Change the narrative?
7 Scuba need
8 Supplement
9 Business executive’s hope
10 Feel under the weather
11 “___ gotta run”
12 Homer calls him
“stupid Flanders”
14 Part of a tape cassette
20 Singer known as
the “Queen of Power
Ballads”
21 Physics Nobelist Bohr
24 Change from green to
red, maybe
25 Continually
26 “S.N.L.” routines
28 Bikini style
29 Gaping mouth
30 Start or end for Alexa?
31 Clean one’s feathers
32 Distress calls?
36 Where two barrel vaults intersect, in architecture
37 Baseball’s Gehrig
38 Wearable party gear
with built-in straws
40 Oppressors
41 Modern warfare
concern, in brief
43 Delivery class?
44 Malia and Michelle, for
two
45 Idaho product, slangily
48 Really dig
49 NASA project
51 “No ___ Traffic”
52 Kind of earring
53 Contacted privately on
social media, informally
54 No longer in use
55 The World Factbook
org.
56 Is, to Ovid