The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 World capital that “wasn’t built in a day”

5 “Dancing Queen” band

9 Throbs, as sore muscles

14 Visa competitor, in brief

15 Kind of tide

16 Insult comic’s event

17 “I will never raise your

taxes!”

20 Prepares to propose,

perhaps

21 Not worth a ___

22 With 10-Down,

humorous film about love

23 Absence noted in vape

pen ads

26 “Right away!”

28 “This product changed

my life! Five stars!”

33 Word after dial or muscle

34 When repeated, identifies those responsible

35 “Pretty Woman” actor

Richard

36 “Exit” key

37 U.K. sports car, informally

38 Upper limit

39 “Let’s go already!”

41 Actor Peter of “M” and “The Man Who Knew Too Much”

43 Take a break

44 “The dog ate it!”

47 Word after full, new or

harvest 48 Become dizzy with

rapture

49 ___-mo replay

51 Mercy Corps, e.g., for

short

53 Social media menaces

57 “Isn’t that mindblowing?!” … or a question one might ask about the answers to the italicized clues

61 Lion in “The Chronicles of

Narnia”

62 Story of heroes

63 Craft seller’s site

64 No ___ or reason

65 When tripled, “you get

the idea”

66 What’s tugged in tug of

war

DOWN

1 Spice holder

2 Muscat’s land

3 1996’s “Dancing Baby” might have been the first one to go viral

4 Cost

5 Jennifer of “Friends”

6 “Ain’t Too Proud to ___” (Temptations hit)

7 Prohibit

8 Tiktok and Instagram, for two

9 Excite

10 See 22-Across

11 Toupees, e.g.

12 Canadian gas brand 13 Part of a rose or a glass

of rosé

18 “Thanks ___!”

19 Lions’ sounds

24 Key of Beethoven’s

Symphony No. 7

25 Comments

27 The “A” of G.P.A.: Abbr.

28 ___ Kramer, Jerry’s

neighbor on “Seinfeld”

29 Exceptionally

30 Sprouted anew

31 Clear of chalk, say

32 Boohooed

33 Many an engineer’s field,

informally

40 “The Matrix” role for

Keanu Reeves

41 The last sound in

“Keanu,” e.g.

42 Rare things from far

away

43 Trample

45 Claimed a victory,

homophonically

46 Pilates target

49 Surgery souvenir, maybe

50 Whip

52 Follow, as orders

54 Oscar winner Jared

55 Talk like Sylvester the

Cat

56 Eye ailment

58 Sweet potato

59 Org. concerned with

emissions

60 Tupperware top