The New York Times Crossword

By Aimee Lucido

ACROSS

1 Destination for NASA’S Perseverance rover

5 Rolls up, as pant

legs

10 Singer/actress

Lady ___

14 In a wild way

15 Final Oldsmobile

model

16 Thick noodles in

Japanese soups

17 Woman who might

wield a whip

19 “Famous” cookie

guy

20 Shape of this answer’s third letter

21 Japanese art form

22 Fanatical

23 Pioneering synthesizers introduced in the 1960s

25 Gas station

conveniences

28 Eastern island on

the Equator

30 Stuff spliced in a

lab

31 Poetic palindrome

32 I.R.S. identifier, for

short

33 Greek “H”

35 Decorate

colorfully, in a way

37 Character associated with the beverage “shaken” in this puzzle’s circled letters Beach shelter Simple shelter

40 43

44 Name that’s also a major Australian airport code

47 Tempe sch.

48 Meme that moves,

maybe

50 Weathered, as a

storm

53 Tallest peak in the

Cascades

56 Pond buildup

57 ___ Stanley Gardner, creator of Perry Mason

58 Last name of two brotherly fairy tale writers

60 In the style of

61 Modern checkout device in lieu of a cashier

62 British author known for his 1984 novel “Money”

64 Zoom button you might click when your dog barks

65 Treelike member of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy

66 Record, in a way

67 Practice boxing

68 Man with a code

69 Common flag

symbol

DOWN 1 Counterparts of

sirs

2 Full of love

3 “50 First Dates” and “27 Dresses,” for two

4 Enjoy the slopes

5 Sonny Corleone portrayer in “The Godfather”

Edited by Will Shortz No. 0502 6 Sport played with a 40 Recording device,

Frisbee informally

7 Physicist Enrico 41 Slightly better

8 Certain status on 42 Mozzarella-andcream

social media cheese

9 “Red” or “White” often served as an

team appetizer

10 Tropical fruit often 45 Posing surface

found in smoothies 46 First female singer

11 Regarded with to have multiple

respect albums exceed 10

12 “At least you did billion streams on

your best!” Spotify

13 Ques. counterpart 49 Opera’s “barber of

18 Tammany Hall Seville” caricaturist 51 “I don’t give a Thomas ___!”

22 At full speed, 52 Preview

nautically 54 Birch relative

24 Weed 55 Mistake

26 Completely 59 Tiny arachnid

27 “Get it?” 61 Sends a ping, in

29 Stick around brief

34 Result of burnout? 62 Studio with a lion

36 Famous Ford flop mascot

38 63

Titular woman in a Symbols for #1 Rolling Stones tagging on Twitter hit

39 They might be full

of beans