NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

no. 0210

ACROSS

1 Player in a baseball stadium 6 Kind of system in which 64 is 100 11 “Hold on ___!” 14 “Serial” podcast host Sarah 16 “Far out!” 18 ___ Panza, sidekick of Don Quixote 19 Not go out to dinner 20 ÷ 40 22 Jesus, with “the” 23 Went to bat (for) 25 Adjective on Tex-Mex menus 26 “Seriez” is a form of it 28 Things with microgrooves 29 Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama 38 Almost certainly 39 Backdrop to AMC’s “The Walking Dead” 40 Remote area? 41 Letters on some bulletproof vests 42 Massproduce, with “out” 45 Big name in mops 50 One of a kind 54 Beer pong receptacle 56 Seemingly expressing 58 Wife in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Tender Is the Night” 59 Fugitive’s destination, maybe 60 Painter’s undercoat 61 Sly chuckle 62 Newspaper divisions 63 Group of near nobodies

DOWN

1 “Your point being …?” 2 Mounts with a little white on top? 3 French novelist/ dramatist associated with the Theater of the Absurd 4 Dried chili pepper on Tex-Mex menus 5 Greeting in Guangzhou 6 Fall behind 7 Scorch 8 Home to Rodin’s “The Kiss,” with “the” 9 Slightly 10 When Taurus begins 11 Oenophile’s criterion 12 Copied 13 Word with space or rock 15 British writing award 17 Region near Mount Olympus 21 Bauhaus-influenced typeface 24 Hospital sections, for short 27 Nudges 28 Celebratory round 29 Tracy and Jenna’s boss on “30 Rock” 30 Odysseus’ rescuer 31 Marvel series depicting the Tet Offensive, with “The” 32 Annual June sports event, informally 33 Cut off 34 Colorful birds

35 Bite 36 Letters that come before AA? 37 House call? 42 Not stay awake any longer 43 “Manners require time, as nothing is more vulgar than ___”: Ralph Waldo Emerson 44 ___ the Hittite, soldier in King David’s army 46 Popped (out) 47 Main 48 C.D.C. concern 49 Game sheet 51 Burrowing animal 52 Pompeii’s Temple of ___ 53 Made, as a putt 55 Fresh 57 Shortest Magic 8 Ball response