NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Stallions' mates 6 Starting from 10 Inflated self-images

14 Engulfed (in)

15 Roman garment of old 16 Trevor of “The Daily

Show”

17 Frank of the Mothers of

Invention

18 Humpty Dumpty's

perch

19 Cast a ballot

20 Imbibe copiously 23 Tally

24 Snaky fish that can

swim backward 25 Middle square on a

bingo card

26 Move speedily

31 “The Fox and the Crow”

storyteller

34 Depend (on)

35 M.A. applicant's test 36 Go with the ___

37 Persuades

39 “Yay! Tomorrow's

Saturday!”

40 Big bird in Liberty

Mutual ads

41 Very many

42 Elements that make up

the atmosphere

43 Toil arduously

47 Borscht vegetable 48 Pecan or almond

49 Ave. crossers 52 Observe intently 56 Numbskull

57 ___ Grey tea

58 Foxx with an Oscar for

playing Ray

59 ___ call (attendance

check)

60 Frosty coating

61 Vital part of the stratosphere's protective layer

62 “If all ___ fails …” 63 “Shoo!”

64 Beauty's fairy tale

suitor, with “the”

DOWN

1 Japanese carmaker with a CX series 2 Oscar, Emmy or Tony 3 Swift

4 “Monday Night Football” channel 5 Drastic reorganization 6 Whenever one wishes 7 Drench

8 Eye rudely

9 Pita sandwiches of deep-fried chickpea balls

10 Regarded with jealousy

11 Big fat zeros 12 Swearing-in pledge 13 “___-Ra: Princess of Power” (1980s animated series) 21 Hall-of-fame QB

Dawson

22 Noisy scuffle

26 Noisy scuffle

27 Boiling mad

28 Piano part

29 One of the

Great Lakes

30 N.B.A. whistle blowers

31 Not very many 32 Furry red Muppet 33 Tart hard candies 37 Crawls as a snake

would

38 Stir-fry pan

39 Kids' chasing

game

41 Actor Guinness who portrayed Obi-wan Kenobi

42 Found employment 44 Water heater for tea 45 Bit of jewelry to wear

with sandals 46 Needing to be paid 49 American ___ (U.S.

Pacific territory) 50 Siblings like Jacob and

Esau

51 Shooting sport with

clay targets 52 Cashmere or angora 53 Nonclerical, at a

church

54 Filmdom's la Douce

55 Smoggy overcast 56 Hip-hop's Dr. ___