NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1 Plucky words? 11 Flags 15 “That’s some boyfriend you have” 16 “Star Trek: T.N.G.” role 17 Low-stress address? 18 Like the middle of Australia 19 It holds the world record for most pas- sengers on a commercial airliner [1,088] 20 Fizzy vitamin supplement 22 They try to get into your head 25 Recipe amount 26 Attraction in Bath, England 27 Roll around 29 Alternative to Chanel No. 5 31 Prefix with gender 34 Some signals from pitchers 35 Flaps 36 Fireplace receptacles 38 Shylock’s daughter in “The Merchant of Venice” 39 Pressing need 40 Young stud? 41 Sea as in Cannes? 42 Beat 43 Something to watch 45 Neighbor of Iran: Abbr. 46 Area worth the most bonus troops in the game Risk 48 Underground activity in the ’50s 52 Guarantee of the Sixth Amendment 54 Hill of ___, site of Ireland’s Lia Fáil 55 “The O.C.” protagonist 56 “Run that by me again” 60 A parent may tell a child to watch it 61 Fair competition 62 Belly laughs 63 Dangerous thing to cross
DOWN 1 Blind followers 2 Gets better 3 Application requirement, maybe 4 Hunkered down 5 Checks off on 6 Check out 7 “The noblest hateful love that ___ I heard of”: “Troilus and Cressida” 8 Small suits 9 Grandmother, in dialect 10 Many 1920s Harper’s Bazaar covers 11 Animal form of Harry Potter’s Patronus 12 “Officer, that’s the thief!” 13 Gentle farewell 14 1950s TV personality who appeared in “Grease” 21 Current regulator 23 Door part often fitted with an alarm 24 Poor work habit 28 Relig. affiliation of more than six million Americans 30 Request for an island getaway? 31 Celebration after a run? 32 “Do my eyes deceive me?” 33 Popular ABC reality show starting in 2009 35 Andrew Wyeth’s “The ___ Pictures” 37 One for the money? 38 “Morning ___” 40 Gourd also known as a vegetable pear 43 Attached, in a way 44 Who’s depicted in Russia’s “Bronze Horseman” statue 47 Dig 49 He “wept with all six eyes,” per Dante 50 Flash 51 Slakes 53 Kind of place for the summer? 57 Subject of Noam Chomsky’s “American Power and the New Mandarins,” briefly 58 Communication device for the deaf: Abbr. 59 Cry at a Real Madrid game