NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Director Lee 4 Humdrum

8 World’s largest peninsula 14 Response to a good meme, maybe 15 Many a staffer 16 “She” went through a huge breakup in 1984 17 Hells Canyon locale: Abbr.

18 Stooge

19 Low draw 20 Something good to be under 22 Spring event at a nursery 24 Successor to the Cutlass 25 Intended

26 Wee wee?

27 Outlet for the Loire 29 Give in

30 Ain’t right?

31 This pulls a bit 32 Ways

33 Not much

34 Figure in Milton’s

“Paradise Lost” 36 Give a zero-star review 39 Ride provider

40 Subj. of arms talks 43 ___ de combat (out of

action due to injury) 44 Clear speaking 46 Chest thumper, for short?

47 Clothing portmanteau 49 Map of México, e.g. 50 Fought in public 52 Even though

53 J. R. Ewing, e.g. 54 Heroine of Tennessee Williams’s “Summer and Smoke”

56 Corn site

57 Derisive

58 A couple of bucks? 59 T or F, frequently: Abbr. 60 Weatherspoon of the W.N.B.A.

61 Big jerk

62 Wash. setting, in the winter

DOWN

1 Poor woodcutter of folklore

2 Lumpy

3 Pleasant glance 4 Driver’s license information

5 Hoot

6 Flap

7 Hercule Poirot, e.g. 8 Subject of an Italian aria

9 Big Pharma expense 10 “… sting like ___” 11 Protein-rich picnic dish 12 “It doesn’t hurt that bad”

13 Gene mutation results 21 Miracle-___

23 Frank Loesser’s “Once in Love With ___” 25 Tart

28 Rhyme for “thee” in “America the Beautiful”

29 It may follow a dot 32 Lead prosecutor in the

O. J. Simpson case 33 Stubborn one

34 Be against

35 Animal house 36 Maximally

37 Iceberg’s cousin 38 Gallery owner

39 Still packing, say 40 What the four undercover orgs. in this puzzle might do 41 Things that are voted on

42 Means of identification 44 Long, long time 45 Early diet drink 47 Some cuts, later 48 Neighbor of South Sudan

51 Jolly Roger pirate 52 Grace period? 55 Rural expanse