NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Name of five Norwegian kings 5 Words after work or museum 10 Former Iranian leader 14 How Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic 15 French department capital known in Roman times as Nemausus

16 ___ Nostra (crime group)

17 Rock and roll has one in Cleveland

19 Pro’s opposite

20 Org. that monitors gun sales

21 Reached

22 Shop employee 23 Words of greeting 26 Chandon’s partner in Champagne 27 Blossom-to-be 28 October birthstone 30 Play, as a guitar 33 Dem.’s counterpart 36 1980s cop show that TV Guide once ranked as the greatest TV drama of all time 40 Dollar bill

41 Robber

42 Singer Fitzgerald 43 Battery for

a TV remote

44 Window unit 46 James Earl Jones or Tommy Lee Jones 53 Zones

54 String quartet instrument

55 An evergreen 57 Gentlemen

58 Ruckus

60 Made off with 61 Freezing rain 62 Mexico’s ___ California 63 One-named New Age singer

64 Succinctly put

65 What the Ugly Duckling became

DOWN

1 Worker protection org. 2 Reluctant (to)

3 Like the band Josie and the Pussycats

4 Stereo control: Abbr. 5 Walking

6 Saks ___ Avenue 7 Former Italian P.M. whose name means “beloved”

8 Cut again, as grass 9 China’s Mao ___-tung 10 Reduced, with “back” 11 Beehive product 12 Houston player 13 Poem like “The swallow flies up / Into a blue evening sky, / Summer’s small herald” 18 Devour with the eyes 22 Cookie morsel 24 Laze

25 Share a border with 28 “Well, what have we here!”

29 Brooch

30 ___ Lanka

31 Item in a golfer’s pocket

32 B-ball official 33 Alternative to arbitrary governance

34 Wriggly fish

35 Smokey Bear ad, e.g.,

for short

37 Doesn’t leave

38 Deice

39 Gave for a while 43 State that the Arctic

Circle passes through 44 Aesthetic taste

45 “Call me ___!”“O.K.,

you’re …!” 46 Proverbial waste maker 47 Heavenly hunter 48 “Bad, bad” Brown of

song

49 Small egg

50 Houston player, once 51 Metes (out)

52 Spanish wine region, with “La”

56 Horse whose coat is sprinkled with white hairs

58 F.D.R.’s successor 59 “Six-pack” muscles