Across
1
Merry air : LILT
5
Groups of whales : GAMS
9
“Exactly!” : BINGO
14
Name meaning “long-lived” in Arabic : OMAR
15
Replacer of some names : ETAL
16
Theme for a troubadour : AMOUR
17
“That would change everything,” in internet lingo : BIGIFTRUE
19
Many an emoticon : SMILE
20
To an extreme : ONSTEROIDS
22
World capital located partly on Bygdøy Peninsula : OSLO
23
___ Effiong, role on TV’s “Sex Education” : ERIC
24
Waits on : SERVES
26
Max. or min. : LIM
29
Marine Corps protectors, for short : NCIS
31
“Yes, ___!” : MAAM
32
Trade barbs : SPAR
34
It’s a mouthful, frankly : HOTDOGBUN
37
Response to thumb-biting in “Romeo and Juliet” : DOYOUQUARRELSIR
40
Put off : DISGUSTED
41
“A” overseas : EINE
42
“Going Back to ___” (LL Cool J platinum single) : CALI
43
Word in several font names : SANS
45
What a retractable pen lacks : CAP
46
They’re up for debate : TOPICS
48
Tiny biter : MITE
50
N.Y.C. institution awarded an honorary Oscar for changing the public’s perception of movies (1979) : MOMA
51
Percussion instrument that can be tuned to a pitch : KETTLEDRUM
56
Gaffel Kölsch, Augustiner Helles and others : BIERS
58
Dinner for two at Burger King, maybe : CHEAPDATE
59
In common : ALIKE
60
Word with shoot or door : TRAP
61
“___ everybody?” : ISNT
62
Feel, somehow : SENSE
63
Additional solutions? : SUMS
64
Poker game? : EPEE
Down
1
Rebecca in the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame : LOBO
2
“You can count on me” : IMIN
3
Gets behind : LAGS
4
Like the saying “You win some, you lose some” : TRITE
5
Schemer’s mantra : GETRICHQUICK
6
Like the sound of “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,” per the song of the same name : ATROCIOUS
7
Trickster in Polynesian mythology : MAUI
8
Rides with runners : SLEDS
9
Some undergrad degs. : BAS
10
Not going anywhere : IMMOVABLE
11
Experimental nonmelodic genre : NOISEMUSIC
12
Deceives : GULLS
13
Snack item split by Ross and Rachel in the pilot episode of “Friends” : OREO
18
Bracken, e.g. : FERN
21
Words that form other words when read backward : SEMORDNILAPS
25
Latest thing : RAGE
26
Inits. for a trip : LSD
27
Nano technology, once? : IPOD
28
Question before entering a room : MAYICOMEIN
30
Fodder for an analyst : STATS
33
Activist who said “You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right” : ROSAPARKS
35
Group of stars : DREAMTEAM
36
Dobrev of “The Vampire Diaries” : NINA
38
Citrus also known as “uniq fruit” : UGLI
39
Public image, in brief : REP
44
Flight component : STEP
46
French for “canvas” : TOILE
47
Many offshoots : SECTS
49
Huang who wrote “Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir” (2013) : EDDIE
50
Some graduate degs. : MBAS
52
Connecting, for short : THRU
53
Vocal feature : RASP
54
Online publication whose motto is “Cure ignorance” : UTNE
55
Hand (out) : METE
57
Understand : SEE
Answer summary: 7 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Shortz Era but used previously.
