THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 One of the Great Lakes

5 Menacing cloud

10 Sony offering

14 Saint’s home, for short

15 Place for a barbecue

16 Rich finish?

17 “Don’t give up”

19 Rather powerful engine

20 Brown

21 Some plants

23 Value

25 Spooky quality

28 Smoothie fruit

29 Popular cookie

31 Taking things for granted on April Fools’ Day and others

32 “Time ___ …”

33 Track, in a sense

34 Not wait for Mr. Right, say

35 Huuuuuuuuge

37 Loose, now

40 Powerful D.C. lobby

41 Raiser of awareness, for short

44 Not accidental

45 In opposition

46 Guru, maybe

47 Straightens

49 Firm parts: Abbr.

50 Hockey team, e.g.

51 Words on a jacket

53 Risked a ticket

55 Construction staples … or a hint to this puzzle’s theme

59 Famous Amos

60 Rocker Steve

61 “Don’t go!,” e.g.

62 Obnoxious one

63 Subject of some codes

64 Scandinavian capital

DOWN

1 Vase style

2 Compatriot of Mao

3 Noted fatheror-son singer

4 Ancient New Mexican

5 Part of a crib

6 Living ___

7 Major Asian carrier

8 Attire

9 Like melancholy musical keys

10 The poor

11 Not go along

12 Prefix with lateral

13 Bedevil

18 Girl’s name that may precede Ann

22 One may be starting in sports

23 What’s shaken when you say “Shake!”

24 Big letters in electronics

25 Ones moving far from home

26 Fifth in a group of eight

27 Saginaw-toFlint dir.

29 Bit of beachwear

30 ___ way

33 It may be added to alcohol

34 Pitiful

35 Hit the gas pedal hard

36 Actress Wilson of “Mrs. Doubtfire”

37 Sch. with the George W. Bush Presidential Library

38 Corral

39 Strips at breakfast

41 Tough, tenacious sorts

42 Wild blue yonder

43 Features of Boston accents

45 Milieu of the FX series “The Americans”

46 Poetic stanza

48 Like government bonds

49 German preposition

51 Oil qtys.

52 They burn

53 Racing letters

54 Author who wrote “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity”

56 Buried treasure

57 Pull (in)

58 Noted pseudonym in short story writing