N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Metroliner operator, once
7 Actor
Taye of Broadway’s “Rent”
12 Heaven, sweet heaven
15 Holloweyed expression?
17 What’s all the buzz about?
18 Physical realm, in cyberpunk
20 Zip
23 One to sniff out
24 “Geez!”
25 ___ o menos (Spanish 101 phrase)
26 Macbeth’s burial isle
29 Lacking any emotion
31 “101 Dalmatians” villain
34 Elephant abductors of legend
35 Longtime dance feature on TV beginning in 1971
38 Digital book file extension
39 Locale for house reps?
40 Sacred choral composition
42 Tube traveler?
43 Domingo, e.g.
46 “___ me!”
47 Christmas tree figurine, maybe
50 Involved with
52 Figures that lack curves
56 Fictional maker of Dehydrated Boulders and Tornado Seeds (“just add water”)
57 Bulk of an experiment
60 Global justice phenomenon sprung from a 2006 Myspace post by Tarana Burke
61 Red sauce alternative
62 Turn-ofthe-century Oldsmobiles
DOWN
1 H.S. course whose textbooks are full of solutions 2 Berth place
3 Jewelry stores?
4 Car on a track
5 Buzz
6 Play around
7 Strike at a newspaper office?
8 Lead-in to a letdown
9 “I ___ Feeling” (2009 charttopper)
10 Party people
11 Show appreciation at a poetry slam
13 Kind of card in cellphones
14 Strong-arm
16 Torch bearer, maybe
19 Big name in the frozen aisle
21 Word before talk or power
22 Teens, e.g.
27 Historic megalomaniac
28 Setting for an 1836 shootout
30 Prune
31 Die, say
32 Schreiber of “Spotlight”
33 Variety of cattle
35 On-air campaign expense
36 Lapped, perhaps
37 Eponymous town in southeastern Connecticut
38 The conqueror Tamerlane, for one
41 Mexican beer brand
43 Less predictable
44 Like early sound recordings
45 Catalysts, as of change
48 Doritos ___ Tacos (fast-food offering)
49 Cereal box word whose third and fourth letters are stylized as bits of cereal
51 Instruction to Alice
53 When repeated, workout class instruction
54 Friend of Mr. Noodle on children’s TV
55 Thruway advisory
58 Wall-E’s love in “Wall-E”
59 Still at Disney World?