THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Given the short end of the stick 8 Prone 11 What many Brits don’t spell “realize” with 14 500, e.g. 15 Natural energy source 17 Designer behind the Dolly Girl perfume 18 Really stress 19 Wind sounds 20 Strong connection? 21 Locale in “Do the Right Thing” 24 Where the Shannon flows 25 One may be straight 26 Put down 29 Disconcert 32 Spirit 34 Excessively sentimental 35 No more 36 Trim, in a way 38 Own (up) 39 Tapes, maybe 41 Impudence, slangily 42 For the taking 43 Bacchanals 45 Flower girl, sometimes 47 Like a control freak 48 Classic sitcom sign-off 52 Big appetite 55 House shower 56 H&M competitor 57 Providers of limited coverage? 59 Noodge 60 1983 song that begins “Hate New York City” 61 Only word spoken in Mel Brooks’s “Silent Movie” 62 Back again 63 “That’s no challenge”

DOWN

1 Rogue 2 Tower of ___ (classic math puzzle) 3 Desi Jr. of the 1960s group Dino, Desi & Billy 4 His assassination sparked W.W. I 5 Tarboosh feature 6 Coin introduced by Louis IX 7 ___ gratia 8 Famed Indian burial site 9 Took for a fool 10 Food processors, informally 11 One involved in monkey business? 12 Titular Salinger girl 13 Puma prey 16 Campaign of flattery 20 Humorous as opposed to strange 22 Wished could be undone 23 Key 27 Place to pray 28 Where Molson Coors is TAP 29 Feeling that everyone’s having fun without you, in modern lingo 30 More than conjecture 31 Place of outdoor meditation 33 Tennis’s Petrova 37 ___ Vogue 40 Harbor seal 44 Dieter’s piece of cake? 46 Crackpot 49 Trouble in the night 50 Catches in the act 51 Retract 52 Skiing great Lindsey 53 Nondairy spread 54 Newbie 57 Jot 58 1969 Peace Prize agcy.