NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Suddenly stopped communicating with, in modern lingo

8 Daft 11 Utility bill meas. 14 Fresh spin on a familiar idea 15 Ride on a merry-goround, maybe 17 Conceives 18 City nicknamed “The Gateway to the West” 19 Incommunicado period 21 Wade in the Baseball Hall of Fame 24 Bench press muscle, for short 25 Spook grp. 26 Running shoe brand

27 Put on a truck, say 29 “Don’t ___ it!” 31 Debbie Downer 33 Frenzied place 34 Contacted without a trip to the post office, say 35 “Gone With the Wind” locale

39 ___ Stark, patriarch on “Game of Thrones” 40 Express one’s opinion in no uncertain terms 41 Pianist/comic Victor of old TV 44 O’Hare and LAX 45 Emmywinning Kudrow 46 What a weather balloon might be mistaken for 47 Roman sun god 48 General tone 49 What a late sleeper may use … resulting in 19-, 31- and 40-Across? 54 Meditative exercises in a steamy room 55 Could no longer fit into, as one’s childhood clothing 59 Pittsburgh pro 60 Former 61 Like the Canadian flag’s maple leaf 62 Verb with “thou” 63 Verbally attack, with “at”

DOWN

1 Big purveyor of vitamin supplements 2 ___ Majesty 3 Be behind 4 Observatory activity 5 Byes 6 Barely made, with out 7 Lucy’s guy 8 Tousled 9 Bit of a lark 10 ___ pickle 11 Leave, slangily 12 One of the Nixons 13 Vote out 16 Iowa college 20 Memorable 1995 hurricane 21 ___ in arms 22 Tube traveler 23 Egyptian tourist spot 27 Set off a polygraph 28 Up there in years 29 Procrastinator’s promise 30 Six for dinner? 32 Paul who painted “Fish Magic” 33 For whom “it is not possible either to trick or escape the mind,” per Hesiod 35 Great deal 36 “How’s it ___?” 37 Supposing that 38 Many miles away 40 “Star Trek” role for George Takei 41 W.’s father 42 Significant 43 Entrenched 44 Capital of Tasmania 47 Bob with the Silver Bullet Band 48 Pledge drive giveaways 50 “Hey!” from Jesús 51 Author Émile 52 Hammer or sickle 53 “Chicken of the sea” 56 2016 Olympics host, informally 57 Bird whose name is also the initials of a school in Ypsilanti 58 Dampen