THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Bottom topper? 5 “Oh, ___!” 9 Terminal info 13 [Oh, well] 14 Attempts 15 Tirade 16 *Great Plains plaints? 18 Late hours, in ads 19 “Better safe than sorry” and others 20 Café lightener 21 Did home work? 24 *“Get Silverstein on the phone now!” 26 Caterpillar’s Illinois home 28 As per schedule 29 *Command like “Let me be direct: Get lost!”? 33 Chin-wag 34 City destroyed by Godzilla 35 “You’re oversharing!” 38 *Cramps from posing too long? 42 California wine valley 45 Supreme Court action 46 *Teach Dick and Jane’s dog new tricks? 50 “I kid you not!” 51 Martini & ___ 52 Like refrigerators, at times 54 “Are not!” rejoinder 55 Opening at the post office … or, when read as three words, a hint to the answers to the starred clues 59 Withdraw slowly 60 Leaps on the ice 61 Commercial lead-in to pass 62 ___-chef 63 Where Kellogg’s is “K” 64 Visa concern

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1 1/48 of a cup: Abbr. 2 Part of many carrier names 3 New York hub for Delta, briefly 4 Fire-breathing monster of myth 5 Shrek creator William 6 Watts of “The Impossible” 7 Bottomless pit 8 Often-overlooked email parts, briefly 9 Auto designer Maserati 10 Meditative exercises 11 “La Marseillaise,” for France 12 TV’s “Remington ___” 14 Eighty-___ (toss) 17 Pie chart lines 20 Longtime host who wrote “Leading With My Chin” 21 “___-daisy!” 22 Like thinking about thinking 23 Bill fatteners 25 Material for a warm sweater 27 Ancient markets 30 F.D.R.’s last veep 31 La Brea goo 32 Reggae grew from it 35 Meaty lobster part 36 iPad ___ 37 “Picnic” Pulitzer winner William 38 Bottles marked with a skull and crossbones 39 Former Dodge 40 Stereo component 41 Trudged 42 Attachments to juice boxes 43 Call from Juliet 44 Bahamian capital 47 College honcho 48 Hall’s partner in pop 49 Dr. or Mr. 53 Some, along the Somme 55 Office PC connection 56 Paris’s ___ de Rivoli 57 Heavenly object 58 Collection of bets