NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 New York City’s ___ Delano Roosevelt Park 5 “This is dear mercy, and thou ___ it not”: “Romeo and Juliet” 10 Loretta of “M*A*S*H” 14 Member of hoi polloi 15 Place to look for a date 17 Jai ___

18 Some phone notifications during March Madness 19 *Family name in

Shakespeare

21 *Pill form

22 Bit of pool wear 23 Leaves on the line 24 One might be measured by the pound

25 “True that”

27 Apple varieties

29 Conway in the Country Music Hall of Fame 31 Stat that doesn’t apply to Teslas

34 First Billboard #1 hit for U2 ... and a hint to the answers to the four starred clues 37 “Coronation ___” (Elgar

composition) 38 Woman’s name that

sounds festive

39 Gives quite a shock 40 Guinness record-holder for the most career goals in football 41 Blowout 42 *Family name in Shakespeare

47 *Film technique sometimes used to show the passage of time 50 Never-before-seen 51 Livened (up)

52 “No problemo!” 55 Standout diva performances

56 One who doesn’t give up

57 “Right away, boss!”

58 Pay (up)

59 Fired (up)

60 They’re in one year and out the other

DOWN

1 Inundates with junk 2 OK

3 Help to get back on one’s feet?

4 In need of toning down

5 Absorb

6 Language in which “Hello, how are you?” is “Halò, ciamar a tha thu?” 7 Cancún-to-havana dir. 8 Having all one needs 9 Determines as the source

10 Fitbit units

11 New York paper that published the very first crossword (1913) 12 Put in the ground

13 Likely to snap 15 Bandleader Xavier

16 Part of an aircraft wing 20 Follows, as a tip 23 Willowy

25 “You can count on me” 26 Championship

27 ___ Jima

28 In the center of

29 Place for a #

30 Lin ___, author of the best seller “The Importance of Living” 31 Billboard’s year-end #1 single of 1979

32 “To Helen” poet

33 ___ Fring, “Breaking Bad” bad guy 35 Mariner’s skill

36 Brings to mind, as a flavor

41 Reason to say “Duh!” 42 “You Can’t Take It With You” director, 1938 43 Unfamiliar

44 Skirt or curtain feature 45 What might end a wrestling match 46 System of modified spellings used on the internet

47 Like N.F.L. referees since 1975

48 Extremely cold 49 Modifications to text 51 Stare slack-jawed 53 A Stark, to a Lannister, on “Game of Thrones” 54 Reluctant to give details