Author: Esha Datta
Editor: Will Shortz
Across
Line just above “total,” maybe TIP
Place for three men of verse INATUB
Mideast site of conflict GAZA
That: Sp. ESO
“Nothing doing” NODICE
Series of courses MEAL
Response to a baby animal picture AWW
Like many tournaments SEEDED
Swiss river AARE
___ discount ATA
Game island represented by hexagonal tiles CATAN
Like a planet’s path ORBITAL
Reason to take a back road, maybe SCENERY
___ mater (brain cover) PIA
Testify DEPOSE
Boldly stylish, in slang FIERCE
Comics sound BAM
Pastries usually accompanied by chutney SAMOSAS
Like a final, desperate attempt DOORDIE
Romantic infatuation CRUSH
Store posting: Abbr. HRS
Pulitzer-winning author who was also a film critic for Time magazine AGEE
Salt, at times DEICER
Mistakes in baseball … or what 18-, 24-, 34- and 51-Across might produce? WILDPITCHES
Rumpus ADO
Running shoe brand AVIA
Jhumpa ___, Pulitzer-winning author of “Interpreter of Maladies” LAHIRI
“___ better to have loved and lost …” TIS
Telegraph, say SEND
Safari pest TSETSE
Time for Paris’s 2024 Jeux Olympiques ETE
Down
Where many bags of leaves can be found TEASHOP
“Cross my heart!” ISWEARIT
Energizing snack POWERBAR
Overrun INFEST
“Beats me” NOIDEA
What the 1660s Pascaline machine, named for Blaise Pascal, could do ADD
___ wave TIDAL
Sch. that once used a live bear as a mascot during football games UCLA
Ingredient in some batter BEER
Big name in trucks GMC
Make bubbly AERATE
Mideast spice blend ZAATAR
State capital once home to Herman Melville ALBANY
Pause to play? RECESS
Measure of print quality: Abbr. DPI
Trees in the birch family ALDERS
Once again ANEW
Certain racing wear SPEEDO
___ anglais (English horn) COR
More quickly? ETC
Sightings of them can be reported on the Enigma app UFOS
Unlucky accident MISHAP
Sweet ___ PEA
Renounce ABDICATE
Stuck the landing NAILEDIT
Place for soap? MELROSE
Most common vowel sounds in English SCHWAS
Achieve widespread recognition ARRIVE
Cotton material MUSLIN
Calls for delivery ORDERS
Attire for a toddler ONESIE
Baseball stat RBI
Actress Anne of “Wag the Dog” HECHE
Coated with gold GILT
List on display at the airport ETAS
___ jokes DAD
Popular song HIT
