Solution: Comedian Eldjárn with the Netflix special "Pardon My Icelandic" - NYT Crossword

This is a ludicrous pair of clues if your knowledge of Nordic standup and mixology is as slim as mine — I threw up my hands when I read them. The “Comedian Eldjárn with the Netflix special ‘Pardon my Icelandic’” is ARI, who tends to send up his Northern European neighbors. The “____ of poetry, beverage in Norse mythology that turns its drinker into an all-knowing scholar,” is MEAD, which I suppose is guessable once “beer” is ruled out by crossing letters. A shot would surely help us solve this puzzle — there’s a recipe that makes the drink sound rather nice.