The New York Times Crossword

Answers below

ACROSS

1 Vaccine units, in brief

4 Villainous

7 Common wood for shoe trees

12 Sweetie

13 Cause for a food recall, maybe

16 20 Questions category

18 The Food Network’s “Barefoot Contessa”

20 Chew out

21 Lit-___

22 Civil rights leader who cofounded the N. A. A.C.P.

24 “Obviously!”

27 Wetland wader with a down

curved bill

28 U.S.O. audience

29 Mathematician regarded as the first computer programmer

31 Apt rhyme for “cake”

32 But nevertheless

33 “… ___ not in Kansas

anymore”

34 Bulb unit

35 Portrayer of the nurse Marta

Cabrera in “Knives Out”

39 Some computing platforms

42 12

43 When doubled, a popular logic

puzzle

46 Beauty supply giant

47 Director of the miniseries

“When They See Us” 51 Iconic flight pattern

52 Qatari leader

53 Hardest to pin down, say

54 “Girl in Progress” star with a

line of cosmetics

57 “Oh yeah, that sounds super

plausible”

58 Japanese soy sauce

59 “The Vagina Monologues”

playwright

63 Universal, Paramount or

Columbia

64 Sudden forward thrust

65 Bellicose humanoid of

Middle-earth

66 Olympic stickers?

67 ’Fros and fades

68 Org. with a cryptologic

museum

DOWN

1 Letter before psi

2 Yield

3 Greet with a “grr”

4 Shellackings

5 Crossword direction: Abbr.

6 Punctuation in a web address

7 One hailed in the streets

8 Celeb gossip show

9 Potentially catastrophic

10 Blend

11 Rodential, say

14 Floral garland

15 International cricket

powerhouse 17 Diminish

19 Fish or mushroom feature

23 Epitome of simplicity

24 Custom

25 Eye layer

26 What sheepdogs do

30 Wrangler alternative

31 Clear plates, say

34 Pool divisions

35 Alias inits.

36 “This matters to me how?”

37 Dissolute man, from the

French

38 Take up a new residence

39 Covers for a king or queen?

40 Bring to a new level

41 Make R-rated, say

43 Use, as a prayer mat

44 Occasions for egg-hunting

45 Competitor of Wapo and

W.S.J.

47 OB/GYN tests, informally

48 Short film?

49 Dizzy

50 Chest bumps?

52 Full of creepy vibes

55 Assembled

56 Crime show spinoff, familiarly

60 Terminus

61 Id’s counterpart

62 Second-oldest record label in

the U.S.