The New York Times Crossword

By Brad Wiegmann

ACROSS

1 Lead-in to box or

bug

5 Encumbers, with

“down”

9 Gooey sandwiches, informally

13 Weapon whose name has two accents

14 Lighthearted

refrain

15 Surface

calculation

16 Popular videoconferencing app

17 Machu Picchu

visitor, say

18 Knitter’s stitch

19 Nicholson and

Nicklaus, e.g.?

22 Persephone’s

lover

25 “Next one’s on

me”

26 Soren Kierkegaard and Chris Isaak, e.g.?

30 Little bits

31 Kaput

32 “NCIS” airer

35 Qatari dignitary

36 Broncos and

Explorers

37 Who might call French fries “chips”

38 “Oh, what’s the

___?”

39 Constellation named for a mythical ship

40 Overworked 41 Percy Bysshe Shelley and Billy Ray Cyrus, e.g.?

44 Second number on

a pants tag

47 Least experienced

48 Henry the Eighth and Hubert H. Humphrey, e.g.?

52 Stadium sounds

53 New wing, say

54 Frog transformer

58 Club soda garnish

59 Dorothy, to Em

60 Something to bat

around

61 The yearling in the 1939 Pulitzer winner “The Yearling,” e.g.

62 Receptionist’s

spot

63 Bar that gets smaller and smaller

DOWN

1 Candy whose name derives from the German “Pfefferminz”

2 Airbnb had one in

2020, for short

3 Certain fire

sign

4 Tart treat

5 Cheese with a

white rind

6 Like wine aged in

casks

7 Sheer delight

8 Fish thought to be named after a region in Italy

9 Relatives of

custard apples

Edited by Will Shortz

10 The Boss,

familiarly

11 Snack whose name comes from the Quechua for “dried meat”

12 Chip dip

14 “If ___ walls

could talk ...”

20 Zeros, in soccer

21 Little bit

22 Seine send-off

23 Unhappy fates

24 Convex navel

27 Be nuts about

28 Pig out

29 Provide resources

for

32 Word before ring or after true

33 Snacks

34 Cardiologist’s

insert

36 Most of

Nebraska

37 Rathskeller offerings, informally

No. 0306

40 Target of a 1917

uprising

41 More succinct

42 Taunting laugh

43 Name that becomes another name when its first letter is dropped

44 Poker

declaration

45 “I kid you not!”

46 “Sorry, not

sorry”

49 Falco of “Nurse

Jackie”

50 Some

summer libations

51 Berth place

55 Wedding

words

56 Domain of Spongebob Squarepants

57 Sticky stuff