The New York Times

ACROSS

1 Website overseer

6 Spanish for

“sweet”

11 Former N.Y.C.

mayor Beame

14 Like soil that combines sand, silt and clay

15 AAA part: Abbr.

16 Turpentine

ingredient

17 [Birds] + [Bees] =

P.R. campaign goal

19 Contraction that

drops an “i”

20 “A,” on a timeline

21 Put down

22 Response to a

doubter

24 Neat analogy?

26 [Lightsaber] + [Impatient fingers] = Boring

27 Painter’s kit

28 Half of a 1960s folk

rock group

29 P.O.’ed

30 Go-___

31 Common prom

coif

35 Tail … or one with

a tail

36 [Cellphone] + [Bubble]

= Edible accessory

39 Far from fastidious

40 Blown away

42 Fictional business on TV frequently targeted by prank calls

43 Hold forth 45 Tests that are very

hard to cheat on

47 “___ noches!”

48 [Cow] + [Thunder]

= Snake eyes, e.g.

51 Apollo Theater’s

locale

52 Word with party or

balloon

53 Be struggling, say

54 Grammy winner

India._ _ _

56 Rep. Cheney of

Wyoming

57 Academy Awards category eliminated in 2021 … or a hint to interpreting four clues in this puzzle

60 It’s often included

in a good deal

61 Private student

62 Watch it!

63 Former Chinese

premier Jiabao

64 Keeps thinking

“Grrrr!”

65 Hägar the

Horrible’s pooch

DOWN

1 Acqua ___ (cause of annual flooding in Venice)

2 A key to what’s

underneath?

3 Prime spot at a

music festival

4 “My parents are

gonna kill me!”

5 Winner of over 125 Pulitzer Prizes, for short

6 Bobby who sang

“Mack the Knife”

5

Edited by Will Shortz No. 0930 7 Many flash drives, 34 Dumb ___

familiarly (buffoons)

8 Sch. in Baton 37 Shopkeeper’s

Rouge “Sorry, none left”

9 Ingratiate oneself 38 Decant

with 41 Place to live and

10 Skin malady learn

11 Up and about 44 Pregnancy

12 Major Chinese hormone

internet company 46 Certain tributes

13 ___ salts (although they

18 Copy-right? may not seem like

23 Calif. school that’s them) about 20 miles 47 Great relief from the Mexican 48 Legal drama with border Jimmy Smits

25 Colleague 49 Temporarily

26 Dwells tiresomely suspended

(on) 50 Shrivel from age 27 Verdi opera 51 Goes underground 28 Flips (through) 53 From the start

30 Small hill 55 Performer’s grand

32 United way? slam, in modern

33 Worker searching parlance for patterns in the 58 Sport ___ (allterrain statistical noise vehicle)

59 O.R. lines