NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 *Adlai Stevenson as a presidential candidate, e.g. 7 Sleazeball

10 Fricassee, for example

14 Fix, as a boot

15 Singly

17 Remark from Don Rickles 18 It’s “knowing all the facts,” according to Woody Allen 19 Points along a bus route 20 Connection provider, for short 21 *Limits on team payrolls 22 Ragtime legend Blake 24 Airheaded

25 Listen (to)

28 How cigars should be kept, say aficionados

30 They praise in non-prose 31 **Doesn’t go to either extreme

33 Head lines, briefly? 36 Social gathering 37 Shame

38 “Perhaps ___” 39 Tomorrow’s jr. 41 Knight’s need

42 ___ Helmer of “A Doll’s House” 43 George I or V? 45 Blooming

47 *Snitch

49 Boxer’s concern, maybe 50 Tickle

51 Squid predator 52 Abductee of myth 56 Guarantee

58 1927 automotive debut 59 Dessert component often bought premade 60 *Individual telephone connections 61 Research org. 62 “Got that right!” 63 Mentallyinfirm

DOWN

1 Speaker in major-league baseball history 2 Came’s partner

3 Bone: It.

4 “Rugs”

5 Injured party’s warning

6 Crossed paths

7 Stand 8 Hypermeticulous

9 German article

10 Something involved in a firing

11 “You missed your chance” 12 Vacuum tube innovation of 1946 13 Beat

16 Operatic villains, often 20 Sleazeball

23 Makeup of many moon rocks

25 A whole bunch

26 Prefix with -logical 27 Quadrennial U.S. occurrence

28 Poker blunder

29 Michael of “The Great Santini” 32 Managed

34 “Saw” stuff

35 Castor or Pollux

40 Topping the Scoville scale

42 Was prying

44 Elaborate, with “out”

46 Punjab’s capital

47 Beats

48 Formula One racer Prost

49 Thinks but doesn’t know for a fact 51 First name in mysteries

53 ___ Strauss

54 Airline with a flag in its logo 55 Statistician Silver 57 Often-illegal maneuver that is key to answering the asterisked clues 58 British V.I.P.s