N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Ultracool person 7 Moneybags 13 Queen of rap 14 Penguin species 15 Diffuse through 16 They make waves in the ocean 17 Hollywood V.I.P.s: Abbr. 18 Roomba, for one 20 Bar at a roast 21 Called for 22 Sounded off 23 Bear in a 2012 film and its 2015 sequel 24 Not much 26 With 45Across, not be direct … or what four groups of black squares in this puzzle do? 28 Parks who stood up for the right to sit down 29 Sequoia, e.g. 31 Financial promise 33 Certain lighters 35 Actor Peters of “American Horror Story” 36 MapQuest feature 40 Impressionist artist? 44 Letter before Peter in the Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet 45 See 26Across 47 Scam 48 Just fine 49 ___ acid 50 Little jerk 51 Alien such as Jabba 53 Methuselah’s father 55 Best Picture partly adapted from a C.I.A. operative’s book 56 Breakout consoles 58 “Grease” actress whose first name consists of the same two letters twice 60 “Let’s call it a day!” 61 Eight-time Gold Glove winner Jim 62 Forward 63 Nets with weights

DOWN

1 It might hold your glasses 2 Security cam sites 3 Certain nutritionist 4 “Our deeds still travel with us from ___, / And what we have been makes us what we are”: George Eliot 5 Zen enlightenment 6 “Whole” amount 7 Word before food, paradoxically? 8 Extreme fandom 9 Treasury bills? 10 #2 on Rolling Stone’s list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists” 11 Most open 12 Stressful time for a student 13 Played smoothly 15 Handle roughly 19 Well-timed 25 “The Many Loves of ___ Gillis” 26 Relative of a cockatoo 27 Provider of protection from the rain 28 Dressing choice 30 Red hair tint 32 Allowance 34 Penn : Wharton :: M.I.T. : ___ 36 Jointly run 37 Personal website section 38 Soda can features 39 Scannable black-andwhite boxes 41 They have souped-up engines 42 Endorses digitally 43 Drone’s job, maybe 46 Stop waffling 52 Sequoia, e.g. 53 Abbr. before a year 54 ___ cable (computer/ TV connector) 55 Embarrassing spots? 57 John, in Scotland 59 Na+ or Cl–