new york times crossword

ACROSS

1 Tex-Mex morsel 10 “Ooh-la-la!” 15 Pop group with the 1993 #2 hit “All That She Wants” 16 Polite rejection 17 Tough crowd? 18 Artifacts, to archaeologists 19 Programclosing command onaPC 20 Gripes 22 Mountain home 24 Equatorial Guinea joined it in 2017 25 Lay the groundwork? 27 This blows! 28 Common classroom adornment 32 Acts allpowerful 35 Detective in “The French Connection” 36 Lamb, by another name 37 Scissors 40 Big name in cookware 41 ___ business 43 Maritime graphic 45 Ration 48 Material in translation 49 Some chats, briefly 50 Behind 51 First chairman of the E.E.O.C., familiarly 53 Wager 56 Heat 59 Group in feminist writing

60 Air traveler? 62 Whence the line “Beauty, terrible beauty! A deathless goddess

— so she strikes our eyes!” 63 “Told you!” 64 ___-Poo, son of the Mikado 65 “Absofreakin’lutely!”

DOWN

1 One running for the Senate? 2 Supercelebrity 3 Yoko Ono, artistically, in the 1960s 4 Equivalent of a megagram 5 In a way 6 Sweet-andspicy sports bar snack 7 Theme of Cirque du Soleil’s “O,” appropriately 8 “Hurry!” 9 Renowned pirate captain during the Golden Age of Piracy 10 First, second and third place 11 Primitive attire 12 “Who ___?” 13 Department store section 14 Where victims of arrests are taken, for short 21 Mental health org. 23 Historic town in Berkshire 25 Certain bank deposit 26 Basic skateboarding trick 29 Classic musical with the song “A Hymn to Him” 30 Freak out 31 Hides 33 Talk, talk, talk 34 “Yo mama” joke, e.g. 38 Ideal, in teenspeak 39 Contents of a playground box 42 We 44 Coiner of the words “chortle” and “frabjous” 46 Modern connection inits. 47 Home of Vegas’s World Series of Poker 52 Turquoise or aquamarine 53 Bugs Bunny’s girlfriend 54 Exiled ruler of 1979 55 Auto dial 57 Good name for a landscaper? 58 ___-Willets Point (subway station in Queens, N.Y.) 59 The “1” in 1-9 61 –