NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Ultracool person

7 Moneybags

13 Queen of rap

14 Penguin species

15 Diffuse through

16 They make waves in the ocean 17 Hollywood V.I.P.s: Abbr. 18 Roomba, for one

20 Bar at a roast

21 Called for

22 Sounded off

23 Bear in a 2012 film and its 2015 sequel 24 Not much

26 With 45-Across, not be direct … or what four groups of black squares in this puzzle do?

28 Parks who stood up for the right to sit down

29 Sequoia, e.g.

31 Financial promise

33 Certain lighters

35 Actor Peters of “American Horror Story” 36 Map Quest feature 40 Impressionist artist?

44 Letter before Peter in the Joint Army/ Navy Phonetic Alphabet

45 See 26-Across

47 Scam

48 Just fine

49 ___ acid

50 Little jerk

51 Alien such as Jabba 53 Methuselah’s father

55 Best Picture partly adapted from a C.I.A. operative’s book

56 Breakout consoles

58 “Grease” actress whose first name consists of the same two letters twice 60 “Let’s call it a day!”

61 Eight-time Gold Glove winner Jim 62 Forward

63 Nets with weights

DOWN

1 It might hold your glasses 2 Security cam sites

3 Certain nutritionist

4 “Our deeds still travel with us from ___, / And what we have been makes us what we are”: George Eliot

5 Zen enlightenment 6 “Whole” amount

7 Word before food, paradoxically? 8 Extreme fandom

9 Treasury bills?

10 #2 on Rolling Stone’s list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists” 11 Most open

12 Stressful time for a student 13 Played smoothly

15 Handle roughly 19 Well-timed

25 “The Many Loves of ___ Gillis” 26 Relative of a cockatoo 27 Provider of protection from the rain

28 Dressing choice

30 Red hair tint

32 Allowance

34 Penn : Wharton :: M.I.T. : ___ 36 Jointly run

37 Personal website section 38 Soda can features 39 Scannable black-and-white boxes 41 They have souped-up engines 42 Endorses digitally

43 Drone’s job, maybe

46 Stop waffling

52 Sequoia, e.g.

53 Abbr. before a year

54 ___ cable (computer/TV connector) 55 Embarrassing spots?

57 John, in Scotland

59 Na+ or Cl–