NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Some metal bands?
4 Not get involved
9 P.I.
12 Sellout
13 1950s service site
14 Hamilton, to Burr
16 *Smelled
18 Group of football blockers, in brief
19 Point on a flowchart
20 Picnic crasher
21 Pitiful group
22 On the lookout
24 *They’re not pros
26 Solving crosswords, e.g.
28 Gurneys’ destinations, in brief
29 Part of a disguise
30 Who wrote and sang “We’re All Water” in 1972
31 #21 of 24
32 Lush
33 Yachter’s itinerary, maybe … or a hint to understanding the answers to the starred clues
37 Clove hitch, e.g.
38 “Reading the ___: One Man, One Year, 21 730 Pages” (2008 book)
39 Hotel room feature: Abbr.
40 Back to school?
41 Ones doing intros
42 “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” poet
46 *Poetry
49 Middleton of English tabloids
50 Hard-wired
51 Something encountered in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”
53 “Um, don’t look now, but …”
54 Boastful mother of Greek myth
55 *Hayloft item
57 Now full
58 Skirt
59 “Illmatic” rapper
60 ___ Échos (French daily)
61 Top-2% group
62 Is from Issy?
DOWN
1 “Did you just see that?!”
2 Cough drop brand
3 Some works of Robert Schumann
4 Music boomlet of the mid-’90s
5 Smidgen
6 A witch doctor might be in one
7 Japanese meal in a box
8 Beat one’s gums
9 Part of España
10 Person with inverted morality
11 Olympics event since 1936
14 Stadium sounds
15 “Come on!”
17 Playwright Brecht
21 Things with entrances and exits
23 Turner on a turntable
25 Neighborhood in New York or L.A.
27 Accessory on a chain
31 Goal of many a candidate
32 Member of the British royal family
33 Not wanting to believe the truth
34 Unpleasant ending
35 Ball boy?
36 Tiniest complaint
37 Durant and Love of the N.B.A.
41 Got together
42 Polytetrafluoro-ethylene, familiarly
43 Notable tech launch of 2007
44 Composition of “Der Ring des Nibelungen”
45 Most docile
47 Swaddled ones
48 Debonair
52 Los Angeles’s ___ College of Art and Design
55 “Kapow!”
56 Neighbor of Wyo.