NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Beginner, in lingo 5 Beaten via a referee's

decision, for short 9 Menial position 14 Words sung twice before “A pirate's life for me”

15 Pint-size

16 Where the terminal dash in “Home Alone” takes place 17 Organized workers 19 Mythical lion's home 20 Apt name for a worrier 21 One driving kids to a

rink, say

23 “Roger that”

26 Sticking points?

27 Hindi for “reign” 28 Honor student's pride,

for short

29 Put up with 30 Accustoms (to)

32 Like planes and flags 33 Kind of lily

34 Fuel for a mustang? 35 Lucky hit for a Pingpong player 39 Non-starters

42 Successfully study 44 Impostor syndrome

feeling

45 The Heat, on

scoreboards

46 Catch

47 Prefix with sexual 48 Jailers … or a hint to “unlocking” four answers in this puzzle 50 Vie to get 52 Sound of a mouse

pointer?

53 Skirt

54 She played Billie Jean King in 2017's “Battle of the Sexes”

58 Formal decrees

59 “___ Creator Omnium”

(ancient hymn) 60 Biblical son of Seth

61 Raring to go

62 Francis Drake and Ernest Shackleton, for two

63 Community served by

Lambda Legal, in brief

DOWN

1 Sch. with the Elmer

Holmes Bobst Library 2 Seemingly for-ev-er 3 Moonshine container 4 Plunder

5 “You shoulda kept that

to yourself”

6 Stuffed Jewish dish 7 How some ballet is

performed

8 ___ golf

9 Jordan Peele's production company, named for a classic horror short story 10 Natives of the Great

Plains

11 Like some signals and

traffic

12 Their name has the “re” of “cream” and the two o's from “chocolate”

13 Big smile

18 “Psst!” alternative 22 Certain high-fat, low-carb diet, informally 23 Treasures buried in the

hills

24 Bob ___, co-creator of

Batman

25 Photo ___ 29 Calculating 31 Purchases for a hightech hobby

32 Peeps, so to speak 34 Solution to a bad hair

day, maybe

36 1981 video game that featured the first appearance of Mario 37 Age, in a way

38 Moves out to sea 40 Thanksgiving

41 Gen-z style with emo

and anime influences 42 Go public with 43 Bugaboos

44 Boil down

45 Soothing sound 47 “___ On Up” (“The

Jeffersons” theme) 48 Marisa of “My Cousin

Vinny”

49 ___ One

(vodka brand) 50 Actress ___ Pinkett

Smith

51 Gangbusters

55 Word with bad or

smart

56 Head, slangily

57 The “e” of i.e.