THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Officers’ clip-ons

9 Apollo setting

15 Tasseled topper

16 Shaded ring

17 Speech opener, often

18 To know, in Nantes

19 Lower

20 Unenlightened stretch

22 Dawn’s direction, in Dresden

23 Some firefighters’ equipment

24 Hill people, for short

27 Unexpectedly

29 Sean of “The Lord of the Rings”

32 Pedal pusher

33 Face reddener

34 “Tell me what you know!”

37 Like many ties

39 Establish

40 Monkey on one’s back

42 Quartet in a cathedral, maybe

43 2008 crossover hit for the country duo Sugarland

47 Matter in the Big Bang theory

48 “The Second Sex” author ___ de Beauvoir

49 Paraguayan pronoun

52 Indy front-runners?

54 A little off?

55 Chinese zodiac figure

57 Room in back, say

59 Wood borers

60 Holiday cakes with swirls

61 Myers of the Clinton White House

62 Pointillism features

DOWN

1 ___-Abyssinian War

2 Ninth-century invaders of East Anglia

3 Home to the marine megapark Océanopolis

4 They’re elementary

5 Pentagon outfit, briefly

6 Adept in

7 Luisiana or Misisipí

8 Star role in many old films?

9 Isn’t out of the running

10 Limp as ___

11 Addition to the mix

12 Tendency to be indiscreet

13 Reuner in New Haven

14 Sully

21 Japanese zithers

23 Be almost out

25 Strain to make?

26 Beginnings

27 “The Starry Night,” e.g.

28 Fidelity alternative

29 Rock analysis

30 One cast in a Harry Potter film

31 Place for an imprint

35 Kind of

36 Viking garment 38 Big business news, for short

41 River draining Lake Superior

44 Got a mental picture of

45 Rent

46 Discounted

49 Morris who directed “The Unknown Known,” 2013

50 Lengthy bout

51 Opposite of deplete

53 Compulsory courses

54 “Tell me what you know!”

55 Many a scoutmaster

56 Cry over, say

58 Sport, for short