NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “No, really”

8 Sort

15 Carpet cleaner 16 High-minded sort? 17 Give a flat fee?

18 Back in the stadium 19 [Can you believe they wrote this?!] 21 TV commentator Navarro

22 Abbr. in math class 23 Stock at a wine bar

27 Off the wall

30 Battle of Soissons setting

32 Place for a miniature flag

33 Goon

34 Weapon with a rope and balls 35 Literary nickname for Dolores

36 One of the Smithsonian

buildings

39 What “they” can only be, to grammar sticklers 40 Enliven, with “up” 41 Signal

42 Iowa town where Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” is set

43 Shade of red 44 Word with chicken or news

45 Go here and there 46 Tight spot

47 Scare quote?

49 Pitch to a publisher 55 Paper that runs mots croisés 58 Seeing someone, say 59 When Caesar says “Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look” 60 Prized sheep

61 1831 Poe work 62 Prizes

DOWN

1 Carnival Cruise stop 2 Twosome

3 ___ tide

4 Walk alluringly

5 “Well …”

6 Aspires to do something

7 “Star Trek: T.N.G.” role 8 Mount near Haifa 9 Like a squashed circle 10 Peugeot symbol

11 It may come long after the play 12 Gangbusters, for short?

13 “___ soon?”

14 Go astray

20 Exercise started by crouching 24 Per

25 Not stray

26 Did phenomenally

onstage

27 Debugging tool? 28 Cyclops killer of myth 29 Poet who wrote “Tonight I can write the saddest lines” 31 Ayaan Hirsi ___, Somali-born advocate for women’s rights and religious freedom 32 Online hilarity 34 Healthful breakfast

choice

35 Do-nothing

37 Ska band instrument 38 Be garrulous

43 Make hand over fist 44 Epicure

46 “Doctor Who” actress

Whittaker

48 Good genre for

a maze maker

50 Intro to Torts student 51 “The Bicycle Thief” setting

52 All together, so to speak

53 Bond collector?

54 Not so great

55 W.W. II craft: Abbr. 56 Pro-sustainability, in lingo

57 “It doesn’t excite me”