N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “No, really” 8 Sort 15 Carpet cleaner 16 Highminded 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”