NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1 “No, really”
8 Sort
15 Carpet cleaner 16 High-minded sort?
17 Give a flat fee?
18 Back in the stadium
19 [Can you believe they wrote this?!] 21 TV commentator Navarro
22 Abbr. in math class
23 Stock at a wine bar
27 Off the wall
30 Battle of Soissons setting
32 Place for a miniature flag
33 Goon
34 Weapon with a rope and balls 35 Literary nickname for Dolores
36 One of the Smithsonian buildings 39 What “they” can only be, to grammar sticklers
40 Enliven, with “up”
41 Signal
42 Iowa town where Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” is set
43 Shade of red
44 Word with chicken or news
45 Go here and there
46 Tight spot
47 Scare quote?
49 Pitch to a publisher
55 Paper that runs mots croisés 58 Seeing someone, say
59 When Caesar says “Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look”
60 Prized sheep
61 1831 Poe work
62 Prizes
DOWN
1 Carnival Cruise stop 2 Twosome 3 ___ tide
4 Walk alluringly
5 “Well …”
6 Aspires to do something
7 “Star Trek: T.N.G.” role
8 Mount near Haifa
9 Like a squashed circle 10 Peugeot symbol
11 It may come long after the play 12 Gangbusters, for short?
13 “___ soon?”
14 Go astray
20 Exercise started by crouching 24 Per
25 Not stray
26 Did phenomenally onstage 27 Debugging tool?
28 Cyclops killer of myth
29 Poet who wrote “Tonight I can write the saddest lines”
31 Ayaan Hirsi ___, Somali-born advocate for women’s rights and religious freedom
32 Online hilarity
34 Healthful breakfast choice 35 Do-nothing
37 Ska band instrument
38 Be garrulous
43 Make hand over fist
44 Epicure
46 “Doctor Who” actress Whittaker
48 Good genre for a maze maker 50 Intro to Torts student
51 “The Bicycle Thief” setting
52 All together, so to speak
53 Bond collector?
54 Not so great
55 W.W. II craft: Abbr. 56 Pro-sustainability, in lingo
57 “It doesn’t excite me”