The New York Times Crossword
Answers below
ACROSS
1___ Jean Covey, protagonist of Jenny Han’s “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before”
5Has a grate voice?
10 Perfume named after a pop star
14In time
16[I’m right here, you know]
17 Period before sunset with ideal lighting for photography
18 Lets go of
19 Faint reactions?
20Pink-headed mushroom in Mario games
22 The cab’s here!
24Unbeatable
25“Be reasonable”
28 Fly catcher
29 Org. that regulates fertilizers
30Feline hybrids
34Winner of Wimbledon five consecutive times between Ashe and Mcenroe
36Historic husband of Claudia Octavia
38 Still learning, maybe
39Coast
40Symbol of life
41Love scene?
43Its influences include the Cuban mambo and Jamaican mento
44Cousin of a mariposa lily
46Made a sound with a flute
48Ripostes
51 Big brand of coolers
52Cook for Easter, maybe
54Yanks
58“Goodness!”
59 What requires a charge to use, in two senses
61Take ___
62 What may go to waste? No! What waste may go to
63Small tips
64Tony and Grammy winner Mitchell
65Oversupply
DOWN
1 Staying power
2State
3 Big move, for short
4 Basketball player’s cry while being fouled on the shot
5 Takes the lead in a team project
6 “So exciting!!!”
7Opening
8Hybrid fruit akin to an aprium
9Dark grape variety
10 Marathon markers of sorts
11 Disclaimer before an uncomfortable question
12Landlord’s concern
13“Couldn’t eat another bite”
15 12-Down participant
21 Person who’s left, for short?
23 “That’s so kind”
25“Fast X” actor John
26Time of year for hunting
27Price to pay, say
31Cop to
32_ _ _ Lieberman, former W.N.B.A. player and coach known as “Lady Magic”
33 Fashion items that may be a bit steep
35 Adjective that, when its lone vowel is doubled, becomes an advocacy organization
37Emphatic assent
42 Things that might hurt you to the core?
45Marble, e.g.
47Tough work schedule
48 Lion : pride :: ___ : crash
49 Opera about an opera singer
50Who says?
53Asian honorific
55Noodle sometimes eaten with mentsuyu sauce
56 “Two steps ahead of you”
57 Sight on a Hawaiian lava flow
60 Univ. overlooking the Hudson River