The New York Times Crossword
No. 0306
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 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 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