NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Director Lee

4 Humdrum

8 World’s largest peninsula 14 Response to a good meme, maybe

15 Many a staffer

16 “She” went through a huge breakup in 1984

17 Hells Canyon locale: Abbr. 18 Stooge

19 Low draw

20 Something good to be under 22 Spring event at a nursery 24 Successor to the Cutlass 25 Intended

26 Wee wee?

27 Outlet for the Loire

29 Give in

30 Ain’t right?

31 This pulls a bit

32 Ways

33 Not much

34 Figure in Milton’s “Paradise Lost” 36 Give a zero-star review

39 Ride provider

40 Subj. of arms talks

43 ___ de combat (out of action due to injury)

44 Clear speaking

46 Chest thumper, for short? 47 Clothing portmanteau

49 Map of México, e.g.

50 Fought in public

52 Even though

53 J. R. Ewing, e.g.

54 Heroine of Tennessee Williams’s “Summer and Smoke”

56 Corn site

57 Derisive

58 A couple of bucks?

59 T or F, frequently: Abbr. 60 Weatherspoon of the W.N.B.A. 61 Big jerk

62 Wash. setting, in the winter

DOWN

1 Poor woodcutter of folklore

2 Lumpy

3 Pleasant glance

4 Driver’s license information

5 Hoot

6 Flap

7 Hercule Poirot, e.g.

8 Subject of an Italian aria

9 Big Pharma expense

10 “… sting like ___”

11 Protein-rich picnic dish

12 “It doesn’t hurt that bad”

13 Gene mutation results

21 Miracle-___

23 Frank Loesser’s “Once in Love With ___” 25 Tart

28 Rhyme for “thee” in “America the Beautiful”

29 It may follow a dot

32 Lead prosecutor in the O. J. Simpson case

33 Stubborn one

34 Be against

35 Animal house

36 Maximally

37 Iceberg’s cousin

38 Gallery owner

39 Still packing, say

40 What the four undercover orgs. in this puzzle might do

41 Things that are voted on

42 Means of identification

44 Long, long time

45 Early diet drink

47 Some cuts, later

48 Neighbor of South Sudan

51 Jolly Roger pirate

52 Grace period?

55 Rural expanse