N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 The “stuf” in Double Stuf Oreos
6 Keeps track of a count, maybe
10 Seoul music
14 Balloon material
15 Deal breaker?
16 Wander
17 High anxiety?
19 “You don’t need to tell me what happened”
20 Junior
21 Lowest rating in showbiz’s Ulmer Scale
23 Kind of paste in East Asian cuisine
26 Local boundaries?
29 Prefix with saccharide or glyceride
31 Basketball highlight, informally
32 Sets to zero, in a way
34 “Star Wars” spinoff set five years after Emperor Palpatine’s fall
37 It’s difficult to go against
38 Force feed
39 Ones diving right into their work? 41 Perfume
42 Rump
43 Shape of some hooks
44 “___ but a scratch!”
45 Mythological hunter turned into a stag
48 Infantile affliction
50 Dreams
55 Subject of J. J. Thomson’s “plum pudding” model
57 Concept in artificial intelligence 60 Scrutinize, with “over”
61 “Chariots of Fire” filming locale
62 Half-bird, half-woman creature
63 ___ Choice Awards
64 Spots in which to lie low
65 Collide into the side of
DOWN
1 Keep the beat, in a way
2 Tear
3 Verb with a circumflex
4 [More tuna, please!]
5 Avant-garde 6 Card game shout
7 Berlioz’s “Queen ___” Scherzo
8 N.Y.C. event on the last Sunday in June
9 Teatro alla ___
10 Kardashian family member 11 Rumps
12 Monthly releases of a sort
13 Hymnbook holder
18 Giggle bit
22 How a mysterious figure may disappear
24 “Be serious!”
25 Shape, informally
27 Is biased
28 Some sensitive info, for short
29 60
30 What Ralph Nader did in 2000, 2004 and 2008
33 Passionate, confident sort, they say
34 Actor Stanley
35 “It’s ___ from me”
36 Something you can’t have while standing up 37 “It’ll ___ you”
40 Bio class subject
46 Quoted
47 Sister channel of HGTV
49 “Good” or “ill” thing 51 Shot in the dark
52 Sub
53 “Fantasy Focus” podcast airer
54 Lump near a lash
55 On point
56 The smallest one is called a minimus
58 Who joins Gryffindor’s Quidditch team in “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”
59 Good people to know