NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Rapids transits?

6 Foot or furlong

10 With 10-Down, enthusiastic south-ofthe-border assent 14 Constellation with Rigel and Betelgeuse

15 Prefix with second

16 Prep school near Windsor Castle 17 *Dessert with light and dark streaks

19 Puts the cuffs on

20 The Black Knights of college football 21 Computer seen at a Genius Bar

22 Gustav who composed “The Planets”

23 Dundee denial

24 *First thing to do on a to-do list

27 Building material that was no problem for the Big Bad Wolf

29 Catering hall dispenser 30 Pioneer in email 31 Microsoft virtual assistant introduced in 2014

35 About, on a memo 36 Product warning label appropriate for the answers to the four starred clues

39 Like Brown University

since 1971

40 Comic convention, for

one

41 Info for an Uber or Lyft customer, for short 42 35mm camera type 43 Sells hard 47 *Sidewinder, for one 52 “Whaaa?”

53 Broncos Hall-of-famer John

54 ___ Lanka

55 “Encore!”

56 “What a pity”

57 *One having trouble keeping weight off

60 Not prerecorded 61 Establishments at many highway interchanges

62 Like the flavor of some barbecue sauces 63 Discarded part of a watermelon

64 Walk back and forth 65 ___ code DOWN 1 Residents of the Eternal City

2 Noah’s Ark landing site

3 Less yielding, as a mattress

4 Country singer Keith 5 Show with Kate Mckinnon, in brief 6 Open, as a bottle

7 ___ Image Awards 8 Printed publicity, slangily

9 One of 20 for a bear 10 See 10-Across

11 Language in which “thank you” is “grazie,” to natives

12 Excuse meant to elicit sympathy

13 Au courant 18 Angst-ridden rock genre

22 Pumpkin

24 Deuces

25 ___ the mill (ordinary) 26 Steaming mad

28 It’s below 7 on the ph scale

32 Rummage (through) 33 Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great

34 ___ Arbor, Mich.

35 Wee

36 What a whopper!

37 When air-conditioners really hum

38 ESPN’S Arthur ___ Courage Award

39 Post boxes?

42 On the ___ (sneakily) 44 Light particle

45 “I’ve found it!”

46 Crow with nine Grammys

48 Used a stun gun on 49 Justin Timberlake’s former band

50 Came to light

51 Not be serious 55 Something frequently reposted

57 Puppy’s bark

58 “I’m ___ roll!”

59 Comcast, e.g., for short