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The full solution for the NY Times Crossword puzzle on Tuesday February 20, 2024 is displayed below.
| 1 Mail inits. since 1971 | USPS |
| 5 ___-Carlton (hotel chain) | RITZ |
| 9 Lettuce or cabbage | MOOLA |
| 14 Small recess | NOOK |
| 15 Drill (into) | BORE |
| 16 Hero of Narnia in C. S. Lewis novels | ASLAN |
| 17 Evidence of a day at the beach | BIKINITAN |
| 19 In a deadpan manner | DRILY |
| 20 Spleen | IRE |
| 21 Middle of a classic boast from Caesar | ISAW |
| 22 Spanish girlfriend | AMIGA |
| 23 "Phooey!" | NERTS |
| 25 Chocolate confection with a molten core | LAVACAKE |
| 28 Partner of "ceases" | DESISTS |
| 31 "Science is like ___: Sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it": Richard Feynman | SEX |
| 32 Cleric's title, for short | REV |
| 33 Tiki bar drink | MAITAI |
| 35 Part of a decent-sized plot | ACRE |
| 36 Effect of secondhand pot smoke | CONTACTHIGH |
| 39 Uber-fan | STAN |
| 41 Ted ___, author of the best-selling short-story collection "Exhalation" | CHIANG |
| 42 Make a mistake | ERR |
| 43 "Well, lah-di-___" | DAH |
| 45 Made an irreverently sarcastic comment | SNARKED |
| 49 Flight of fancy | WILDIDEA |
| 52 Crooner Mel who was called "The Velvet Fog" | TORME |
| 53 Common sight along the Norwegian coast | FJORD |
| 54 Male admirer | BEAU |
| 57 Signature Obama achievement, in brief | ACA |
| 58 Held on (to) | CLUNG |
| 59 Description of 17-, 25-, 36- and 49-Across, in different senses? | HALFBAKED |
| 61 Where it's at | VENUE |
| 62 Afghan's place | ASIA |
| 63 Bottom of a boat | KEEL |
| 64 Army squad leaders: Abbr. | SSGTS |
| 65 Rudely "welcome" the away team | JEER |
| 66 "Toy Story" boy | ANDY |
| 1 Remove the fastenings from | UNBIND |
| 2 Evening party | SOIREE |
| 3 Tools for fireplaces | POKERS |
| 4 Winter item on a car's roof rack | SKI |
| 5 Hank Aaron holds the M.L.B. record for these, for short (2,297) | RBIS |
| 6 Smidgen | IOTA |
| 7 Fishing net | TRAWL |
| 8 Mindfulness-based practice | ZEN |
| 9 Cop-turned-vigilante in a postapocalyptic film | MADMAX |
| 10 Courtier who oversees Hamlet's duel with Laertes | OSRIC |
| 11 Member of a powerful ruling elite | OLIGARCH |
| 12 B-baller in California | LALAKER |
| 13 "___ takers?" | ANY |
| 18 Altima maker | NISSAN |
| 22 "___ Maria" | AVE |
| 24 Shakespeare's "___ of Athens" | TIMON |
| 26 "Given the way things appear …" | ASITIS |
| 27 12/24 or 12/31 | EVE |
| 29 Small songbird | TIT |
| 30 Upper part of a Vandyke beard, informally | STACHE |
| 34 German "Geez!" | ACH |
| 35 Belligerent, in British slang | AGGRO |
| 36 Swiss founder of analytical psychology | CARLJUNG |
| 37 Largest Chinese ethnic group | HAN |
| 38 Like "three men" of nursery rhyme | INATUB |
| 39 Patch things up, say? | SEW |
| 40 Unimportant things | TRIFLES |
| 43 Funereal compositions | DIRGES |
| 44 Chip in | ADD |
| 46 N.H.L. team with a mythological eponym | KRAKEN |
| 47 Presided over a roast, say | EMCEED |
| 48 Lethal | DEADLY |
| 50 Dunkable edible | DONUT |
| 51 Degrade | ABASE |
| 55 Nobelist Wiesel | ELIE |
| 56 Miles away | AFAR |
| 58 Big name in pharmacies | CVS |
| 59 One of Islam's Five Pillars | HAJ |
| 60 Inits. before a nickname | AKA |