NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Metroliner

operator, once 7 Actor Taye of Broadway’s “Rent”

12 Heaven, sweet

heaven 15 Hollow-eyed

expression? 17 What’s all the

buzz about? 18 Physical realm, in

cyberpunk

20 Zip

23 One to sniff out 24 “Geez!”

25 ___ o menos (Spanish 101 phrase) 26 Macbeth’s burial

isle

29 Lacking any

emotion

31 “101 Dalmatians”

villain

34 Elephant abductors of legend 35 Longtime dance feature on TV beginning in 1971 38 Digital book file

extension 39 Locale for house

reps? 40 Sacred choral

composition 42 Tube traveler? 43 Domingo, e.g. 46 “___ me!” 47 Christmas tree

figurine, maybe 50 Involved with 52 Figures that lack

curves

56 Fictional maker of Dehydrated Boulders and Tornado Seeds (“just add water”) 57 Bulk of an

experiment 60 Global justice phenomenon sprung from a 2006 Myspace post by Tarana Burke

61 Red sauce

alternative 62 Turn-ofthe-century Oldsmobiles

DOWN

1 H.S. course whose textbooks are full of solutions

2 Berth place 3 Jewelry stores?

4 Car on a track 5 Buzz

6 Play around

7 Strike at a newspaper office?

8 Lead-in to a letdown

9 “I ___ Feeling” (2009 charttopper)

10 Party people 11 Show appreciation

at a poetry slam 13 Kind of card in

cellphones 14 Strong-arm 16 Torch bearer,

maybe

19 Big name in the

frozen aisle 21 Word before talk

or power

22 Teens, e.g. 27 Historic

megalomaniac 28 Setting for an

1836 shootout 30 Prune

31 Die, say 32 Schreiber of

“Spotlight” 33 Variety

of cattle

35 On-air campaign

expense 36 Lapped,

perhaps 37 Eponymous town in southeastern Connecticut 38 The conqueror Tamerlane, for one

41 Mexican beer

brand

43 Less predictable 44 Like early sound

recordings 45 Catalysts, as of

change

48 Doritos ___

Tacos (fast-food offering) 49 Cereal box word whose third and fourth letters are stylized as bits of cereal 51 Instruction to

Alice

53 When repeated, workout class instruction 54 Friend of Mr. Noodle on children’s TV 55 Thruway advisory 58 Wall-e’s love in

“Wall-e”

59 Still at Disney

World?