The New York Times Crossword

Edited by Will Shortz No. 0926

ACROSS 1

City that’s home to the University of Ghana

6 Hack (off)

10 “You sure about

that?”

14 Kind of green

energy

15 Bring on board

16 Urban legend, e.g.

17 *Program that

detects junk emails

19 Penne ___ vodka

20 Worker who might

be paid by the day

21 “Excusez-_ _ _!”

22 Spills the beans

23 *Slang term for convoluted and unstructured computer programming

27 Piglet’s pal

28 Groundbreaker?

29 Closest bud, in brief

31 Camera output

34 Aid in buying a car,

perhaps

36 Feel bad

37 Cheer squad

syllable

38 Dietary network in an ecosystem … or a punny hint to the answers to the starred clues

41 Genetic messenger

42 Podcast interruptions Street crossers: Abbr.

43

44 Robert Devereux, Earl of ___ (favorite of Elizabeth I)

46 Mercator

projection, e.g.

47 ___ Guevara

(revolutionary)

48 Major component

of a ketogenic diet

49 *Online icon comprised of three parallel horizontal lines, familiarly

55 Preserves, as ham

56 Director Duvernay

57 Hang in the balance

59 First-year law

student, for short

60 *Download that may improve streaming lags

63 Tiptop

64 Got better with

time, say

65 Luxury pajama

fabric

66 You, to

Shakespeare

67 Beauty mark

68 Heroes

DOWN

1 Helper: Abbr.

2 Deals (with)

3 Shop class tool

4 Fortification in “The Star-spangled Banner”

5 Sound at a pound

6 “Nomadland”

director Zhao 7 Bandleader’s

direction

8 You want to make

something of it?

9 The “p” of r.p.m.

10 Novelist Calvino

11 Places to see the romaines of the day?

12 “Don’t worry about

me”

13 Steeped drinks

18 “if u ask me”

22 Pre-year 1, in brief

24 Clumsy error

25 Unfreezes

26 Skye of “Say

Anything …”

30 Plant also known as

linseed

31 Baby buggy, to

Brits

32 Suspected

33 “C’mon, I’ve heard

enough” 34 2019 Taylor Swift album with a romantic theme

35 Many a Pablo

Neruda work

39 Home of the palace

Hanaiakamalama

40 Gymnastics event

requiring balance

45 Parent in a blended

family

47 Network with an

eye logo

48 Mrs., in Munich

50 All-out brawl

51 Courtroom banger

52 Dodge

53 “Cool beans!”

54 Up to

55 Word with sugar or

sport

58 Cub Scout units

60 Toast topping

61 In the past

62 Letter before

omega