NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Rotten

4 Like kiwis and mangos 9 Member of la famille 13 The Depression or the Cold War 14 Dean Martin’s “That’s ___” 15 Writer Edgar ___ Poe 16 TV screen inits. 17 Element next to iodine on the periodic table 18 Make an identification digitally?

19 Midas, Agamemnon, Richard 21 Pursuer in a chase scene

22 Have too much of, briefly 23 Products that gradually dull

25 “I believe,” on the internet 26 Something much-wished-for for people

28 Rest on

30 Actor George with over 10 million Facebook followers 31 Feature of a 26-Across,

maybe

32 Polo, archery, soccer 35 The U.S. Women’s Open

is part of it 38 Ewoks’ home moon 42 Body part that

vibrates

43 Simple choice 45 “Chances ___ …” 46 Equiangular

shape

48 Competes (for) 49 Terse response to

“I’m sorry”

51 Heart, U2, Slayer 53 Many a jukebox tune 54 World capital where

Pashto is spoken 55 Some U.F.C. victories 56 Senses

57 Not moving

58 Flock member 59 Cut down

60 Chess finishes 61 Retrovirus molecule

DOWN

1 Triple Crown venue 2 Domain of Pan, in Greek myth

3 Genre for Dire Straits and Steely Dan, facetiously

4 Leave from the gate 5 Supreme Egyptian god 6 Hetero, say

7 1/100 of a Polish zloty 8 Desire

9 Sound preceding a ripple 10 Draws out

11 Rampaged

12 Measure of disorder, in thermodynamics 15 Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Ohio

20 Patella protector 21 Town ___ (bygone official) 24 World capital on a fjord 27 Dakota, Iroquois, Arapaho

29 Classical music style whose name means “new art” 31 Lifeguard’s skill, for short

33 Heavy 39-Down 34 Heavy competition? 35 Bat first

36 Joint release?

37 Foe of Beowulf

39 Bar patron

40 In this puzzle it starts B-E-L

41 Body of water next to Antarctica 43 “Absolutely!” 44 Guarantee

47 African soccer

powerhouse

50 Cash holder

52 Crunchy diner

orders

54 One of the Kardashians