NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Bottom topper?

5 “Oh, ___!”

9 Terminal info

13 [Oh, well]

14 Attempts

15 Tirade

16 *Great Plains plaints? 18 Late hours, in ads 19 “Better safe than sorry”

and others

20 Café lightener

21 Did home work? 24 *“Get Silverstein on the

phone now!” 26 Caterpillar’s Illinois

home

28 As per schedule 29 *Command like “Let me

be direct: Get lost!”? 33 Chin-wag

34 City destroyed by

Godzilla

35 “You’re oversharing!” 38 *Cramps from posing

too long?

42 California wine valley 45 Supreme Court action 46 *Teach Dick and Jane’s

dog new tricks?

50 “I kid you not!” 51 Martini & ___

52 Like refrigerators, at

times

54 “Are not!” rejoinder 55 Opening at the post office … or, when read as three words, a hint to the answers to the starred clues 59 Withdraw slowly 60 Leaps on the ice 61 Commercial lead-in to pass

62 ___-chef

63 Where Kellogg’s is “K” 64 Visa concern

DOWN

1 1/48 of a cup: Abbr. 2 Part of many carrier names

3 New York hub for Delta, briefly

4 Fire-breathing monster of myth

5 Shrek creator William 6 Watts of “The Impossible” 7 Bottomless pit 8 Often-overlooked email parts, briefly

9 Auto designer Maserati 10 Meditative exercises 11 “La Marseillaise,” for France

12 TV’s “Remington ___” 14 Eighty-___ (toss)

17 Pie chart lines 20 Longtime host who wrote “Leading With My Chin” 21 “___-daisy!”

22 Like thinking about thinking

23 Bill fatteners 25 Material for a warm sweater

27 Ancient markets 30 F.D.R.’s last veep

31 La Brea goo

32 Reggae grew from it 35 Meaty lobster part 36 iPad ___

37 “Picnic” Pulitzer winner

William

38 Bottles marked with a

skull and crossbones 39 Former Dodge 40 Stereo component 41 Trudged 42 Attachments to juice

boxes

43 Call from Juliet 44 Bahamian capital 47 College honcho

48 Hall’s partner in pop 49 Dr. or Mr.

53 Some, along the

Somme

55 Office PC connection 56 Paris’s ___ de Rivoli 57 Heavenly object 58 Collection of bets