Solution: Site of the impact of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago - NYT Crossword

I assume this span is a toughie for most of us, although I’ll be curious to know if there’s a generational divide. I learned in school that the fate of the dinosaurs was still incompletely explained — there might have been a cataclysm like an asteroid strike, but the details were unknown. This will date me, but the first mention of the CHICXULUB CRATER in The Times is in 1992, when I was halfway through college, although the site was discovered in 1978. Since paleontology is an early obsession for so many kids, I wonder if this will be commoner knowledge for some solvers (or if the dino syllabus is even updated to include this discovery). I watched a fascinating movie on the aftereffects of the asteroid that made the crater; you can still see evidence of it in soil layers all around the world. (Here are some people pronouncing Chicxulub, including Bill Nye.)