NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Start of an encrypted

web address

6 “Go” follower

10 Hit the ___

14 “Color me surprised!” 16 Everybody: Ger. 17 Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael? 19 Contractor's fig.

20 ___ Beach, Calif.

21 Following

22 More treasured 24 Counterpart of down:

Abbr.

25 Polishing the chandelier in

“The Phantom of the Opera” and laundering uniforms in “Hamilton”? 32 Procrastinator's

promise

34 Port-___ (French

cheese)

35 Like some nail polish

shades

36 Day following hump

day: Abbr.

37 “The Entertainer,” e.g. 38 Trace

39 “___ 2 Proud 2 Beg”

(TLC hit)

41 Professor Moriarty's

first name

43 Exchange

for a tenner

44 Result of a poorly planned invasion of the Body Snatchers?

47 “Let's ___!” 48 Biological cavity

51 Roll-on alternative 54 Tuned in

57 Grp. with wands

58 “I'm tired of all this negative media coverage”? 61 Legendary queen once depicted on Tunisian currency 62 Consumers of audio

and visual media only 63 Snail-like

64 Comedian Richter 65 Tessellated creatures in

Escher prints

DOWN

1 Brought on

2 “___ days …” 3 Equivalent

4 Reason to avert one's

eyes, for short

5 Marsh birds

6 X in XXX, maybe 7 Name that derives from the Hebrew word for “earth”

8 First female U.S.

attorney general

9 X in XXX, maybe 10 Most expensive spice in

the world by weight 11 Frequently

12 Tip-off

13 Model Miranda

15 God depicted wearing

ostrich feathers

18 Per

23 Be a political

candidate 24 ___ Up, political group formed in response to the AIDS crisis

26 A little over three

grains

27 Big name in rental cars 28 One- or two-person vehicles in the Olympics

29 Source of latex 30 Actress Falco

31 Hardens

32 Ending of seven

country names 33 River that starts in

Pittsburgh

40 Finish some giftwrapping, say

41 Word before black or

Blue

42 Meager

43 “The only way to run away without leaving home,” per Twyla Tharp 45 Rudolph on “S.N.L.” 46 Carry-on limit, often

49 App's audience

50 En ___

51 Quality control

guidelines: Abbr. 52 Hartman who voiced Troy Mcclure on “The Simpsons”

53 Take two

54 Unknown source, for

short

55 Make, as one's way 56 Out of whack

59 It's stranded in a cell 60 Bobbie Gentry's “___ to

Billie Joe”