NEW YORK TIMES

ACROSS

1 “And there you have it!”

9 Small ammo

15 1999 prequel that grossed over a billion dollars, familiarly 16 Obscure knowledge 17 Iran-contra business 18 Chucks

19 Cut

20 Things to 19-Across 22 Helps in a way one shouldn’t

23 Twerps

25 “If I were a betting person, I’d say …”

27 Play with strings

29 Tries to win

30 Hoedown participant 31 Inverse function in trigonometry

33 Things non-PC people buy?

34 Symbol for a member of Anonymous

37 Things often found by the dessert table 38 Dated women?

39 Down

40 It changes one’s perspective

41 Buck ___, first AfricanAmerican coach in Major League Baseball 44 Time off for an N.F.L. team

46 One letter of “NATO” in the NATO alphabet 48 Locale for much of “The Da Vinci Code” 49 Arabic name that sounds like a reply of agreement

53 Rocker Gramm of Foreigner

54 Ominous parting words

56 “Today” co-host beginning in 2007 58 Book of selected texts 59 Frequent locale in the comic strip “Andy Capp” 60 Things hashed and mashed, informally 61 Places for nightstands

DOWN

1 Lintels, e.g. 2 Blacksmiths’ wear 3 Chucklehead 4 Chucklehead

5 Catch a wave, in a way

6 Conception

7 About

8 Decorate elegantly 9 “Enough of this!” 10 Prepares, in a way, as chicken

11 Sources of labor pains? 12 Really enjoy oneself 13 Kind of mind

14 Curtain decorations 21 Longhorn rival 24 Appeals to a higher authority?

26 Playground retort

28 Big name in digital security

29 User-editable internet pages

32 High-class

33 High points

34 Where the rules are unclear 35 Be malnourished 36 Some holiday decorations 37 Plug-in point

40 ___ ape (gibbon) 42 Digital storage service 43 Who wrote “He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened” 45 “Salomé” playwright 47 Easily fooled sorts 50 “Grand, ungodly, godlike man,” in literature

51 Exclusive

52 No longer anonymous, for short

55 Hosp. parts

57 Butterfly ___ (fish)