NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Catchphrase on “The

Simpsons”

10 Not so hot

14 Love poet of old 15 Stage honor

16 Experts in determining the exact shape and size of the earth 17 Court seat

18 Crisp, picturewise 19 Place name in

Manhattan

21 CARE, e.g., for short 22 Got

25 Satisfied the munchies 27 Digital identifiers 30 Startled response to

“Eek, a mouse!” 31 Avalanche

34 Parched

35 Common activity in

couples therapy

38 Off the ___

39 Like presidents with

Bibles, maybe 40 Discontinued grocery chain that was once the U.S.’S largest retailer

42 Snuggles

45 Hearty har-hars

48 Like stadiums 50 Counter offer, for

short? 51 Goes “Grrrr”

54 “Kiss Me ___ the

Phone” (2009 #3 hit) 55 Spanish opposite of

odio

57 “Little Rhody,” with

“the”

60 ___ lives

61 Classic Buster Keaton film set in Civil War times

62 Cut

63 Some terms set by

consenting partners

DOWN

1 Childish denial 2 Attention getter 3 Someone to snuggle

with

4 Fiver

5 Some

campus V.I.P.S

6 ___ Barnes, W.N.I.T.winning basketball coach

7 Spanish ___

8 Ashtray fill

9 Burning issue 10 Swarm

11 Many workers on Wall

Street, informally 12 Slips and such 13 Cracked, in a way 14 Weekend warrior’s cry 20 Uncut

23 Requests made to

latecomers, in brief 24 Game in which the object is to end with zero points

26 Psst! Don’t pass it on! 28 Burgeoned

29 Old English dialect 32 “An Officer and a

Gentleman” star, 1982 33 German philosopher

Bloch

35 Hiker’s bagful 36 Annoying thing to hear

in a movie theater 37 Queens’s ___ Field 38 Dolce’s partner in

fashion

41 One parent of a mixed

breed “poxer” 43 German leader after

Adenauer 44 Tempur-pedic

alternatives

46 Gut feelings? 47 Actor/comedian ___

Baron Cohen 49 Face-off

52 Shipwreck site, maybe 53 Saltimbocca ingredient 56 Strawberry, raspberry

or cherry

58 Inside the box? 59 ___-Cat