THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Vessel for frying food

9 Variety of green tea

15 Word with power or zero

16 Having win after win

17 Beer you make yourself

18 Get cell service?

19 Lovelace of computing fame

20 Some West Point grads

22 Non-PC?

23 Is an agent for, informally

25 One end of a kite string

26 Genuflect, e.g.

27 Indian state known for its tea

29 The moon, e.g.

30 Book leaf

31 Two, to Teo

33 N.F.L. star who was a Sports Illustrated Sportsperso n of the Year in 2017

34 Who said “If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary”

37 Accept the sudden loss of, as an opportunity

38 Children’s author Beverly

40 “Duuuude!”

41 Flute, e.g.

42 One doing cat scans?

44 “Finished!”

48 Lift

49 Motherof-pearl

51 Zippo

52 “Here Come the Warm Jets” musician

53 Butts

55 Lead-in to X, Y or Z

56 Lose fizz

58 Classic declaration in Gotham City

60 Burning

61 Not closing before 10 or 11 p.m.

62 Back from a vacation, say

63 Acceptance from fellow brainiacs, in slang

DOWN

1 Name that comes from Arabic for “desert”

2 Dwellings

3 Many graphics on election night

4 Use it for kicks

5 Italy’s thirdlargest island, after Sicily and Sardinia

6 Engine sounds

7 At the original speed, in music

8 Publishing debut of 1851, with “The”

9 Lead-in to T, A or X

10 In short order

11 Bit of ink

12 What might have a large collection of prints

13 What Gandhi once likened to an ocean

14 Opening of many a speech

21 Swarm

24 Pathetic one

26 College in Brunswick, Me.

28 Ties up, in a way

30 Oslo setting

32 Furtive

33 LinkedIn listing

34 Mixed martial arts champion Conor ___

35 Multipurpos e

36 First ones to bat

39 Representa tive sample of a larger group

42 Acid holder

43 ___ l’oeil (illusion)

45 Onenamed

1950s

TV sex symbol

46 Imagine

47 Back from a vacation, say

49 “Gotcha”

50 Old flame?

53 Like Old Mother Hubbard’s cupboard

54 Smooth

57 Burning

59 Spa offering, briefly