NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Given the short end of the stick

8 Prone

11 What many Brits don’t spell “realize” with 14 500, e.g. 15 Natural energy source 17 Designer behind the Dolly Girl perfume 18 Really stress

19 Wind sounds

20 Strong connection? 21 Locale in “Do the Right Thing”

24 Where the Shannon flows

25 One may be straight 26 Put down

29 Disconcert

32 Spirit

34 Excessively sentimental 35 No more

36 Trim, in a way

38 Own (up)

39 Tapes, maybe 41 Impudence, slangily 42 For the taking 43 Bacchanals

45 Flower girl, sometimes 47 Like a control freak 48 Classic sitcom sign-off 52 Big appetite 55 House shower 56 H&M competitor 57 Providers of limited coverage?

59 Noodge

60 1983 song that begins “Hate New York City” 61 Only word spoken in Mel Brooks’s “Silent Movie”

62 Back again

63 “That’s no challenge”

DOWN

1 Rogue

2 Tower of ___ (classic math puzzle)

3 Desi Jr. of the 1960s

group Dino, Desi & Billy 4 His assassination

sparked W.W. I 5 Tarboosh feature

6 Coin introduced by

Louis IX

7 ___ gratia

8 Famed Indian burial

site

9 Took for a fool

10 Food processors,

informally 11 One involved in monkey business? 12 Titular Salinger girl 13 Puma prey 16 Campaign of flattery 20 Humorous as opposed to strange 22 Wished could be undone

23 Key

27 Place to pray 28 Where Molson Coors is TAP

29 Feeling that everyone’s having fun without you, in modern lingo 30 More than conjecture 31 Place of outdoor

meditation

33 Tennis’s Petrova

37 ___ Vogue

40 Harbor seal

44 Dieter’s piece of cake? 46 Crackpot

49 Trouble in the night 50 Catches in the act 51 Retract

52 Skiing great Lindsey 53 Nondairy spread 54 Newbie

57 Jot

58 1969 Peace Prize agcy.