NEW YORK TIMES
ACROSS
1 Help during the fall? 8 Spanish hotel
15 Venting, e.g. 16 Hardin-Simmons University setting
17 N.L. East city
18 Branded
19 Neo-___
20 Touching things in competitions
22 Web developer’s development 23 Shipload
24 Like some veal chops 26 Hardly fresh
27 It’s not on the level 29 Ed basics
30 Give a kick?
32 Small grouse 33 Wiretapper, e.g. 34 Specifies
35 Healthful juice source 36 Kind of mitt 37 Thrill-seeker’s appurtenance
38 Nap sack
41 Girl in a gown
42 Fluff
43 Stuff of life
44 Virtual connection? 47 ___ Lan (giant panda born at the 17-Across zoo)
48 Soaked (in)
51 The Eagle, e.g.
52 That right introduction? 54 Third-largest city of Switzerland
55 Car once advertised with the slogan “The relentless pursuit of common sense” 56 Bubkes
58 Cabinet part
60 Last new Beatles track before their split in 1970
61 Loose, in a way 62 Wraps around the shoulders
63 Big name in shoe stores
DOWN
1 Accords
2 Update at the factory 3 Home office convenience
4 Difficult thing to do, informally
5 Smoking ___
6 Flower whose name derives from the shape of its cluster 7 Some farm equipment 8 Light-colored and medium-sweet 9 Mortify
10 Leaf part
11 Stout cousins?
12 1966 Pulitzer-winning Edward Albee play, with “A”
13 Common rating scale 14 All-nighters?
21 Role in 1993’s “Tombstone”
24 Those who may accept tips
25 Figured out 28 Renaissance artist ___ della Francesca
31 Kept going
35 Tedious 37 Expressive and quickwitted sorts, they say 38 Fashions
39 Much of binary code 40 Like a boxer’s hands during sparring, maybe
45 Beguilers
46 Sets securely 49 Something to gnaw on
50 “The Vampire Diaries” protagonist
53 Writer Janowitz 55 It makes an impression
57 Place for a piercing 59 Work, as a proposal