THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Join forces

7 Heroin, slangily

11 Lunchbox sandwich, informally

14 Go beyond

15 Gucci of fashion

16 “We ___ Young” (2012 Song of the Year)

17 Read up on a woman, old-fashionedly?

19 One way to stand

20 Yoga position

21 Home of the Heat

22 Naval subordinate: Abbr.

23 Warrior on Mount Olympus

24 Take a chance on a work of poetry?

26 Attack from the air

28 Cousin of a cravat

29 Big name in small planes

34 What crossword clues with question marks often are

35 Cite a chap for speeding?

38 Prepare for a struggle

40 Gives the go-ahead

41 French

38-Down

43 Stable sounds

48 Coax a lost dog to follow you?

53 Figurehead’s place

54 Camera-moving technique

55 Unlikely to defect 56 Task

57 “Hulk” director Lee

58 Check the aroma of a few beers?

60 Al Capp diminutive

61 “You ___ kiddin’!”

62 Thought, to Pascal

63 Québec place name abbr.

64 Loses rigidity

65 Messages with hashtags

DOWN

1 Autos with charging stations

2 Get by intimidation

3 More discerning

4 Monster beheaded by Perseus

5 180s

6 Unlawful behavior in strict Muslim countries, for short

7 Delhi wraps

8 Dagger’s partner

9 “Battlestar Galactica” commander

10 Big name in chocolates

11 Small slice of one’s workday?

12 Richard who founded Virgin Atlantic

13 Travels in high style

18 Ascap counterpart

24 Needs a bath badly

25 Place to follow the M.L.B.

27 Obscenity-monitoring org. 30 Naval burial site, maybe

31 Dirty digs

32 “Hip Hop Is Dead” rapper

33 Ecstasy’s opposite

35 It’s right in the Pythagorean theorem

36 Carded, for short

37 Barely manage, with “out”

38 “Sex and the City” quartet, e.g. 39 “No kidding!”

42 Tex-Mex dips

44 FaceTime device

45 Bellyache

46 Insect that builds a papery nest

47 Three of Abba’s members, by birth

49 The Supreme Court’s Sotomayor

50 Getting even with

51 Shooters through rapids

52 Sitcom extraterrestrial

56 Captain’s command

59 Quick on the uptake