THE NYT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Ultracool person
7 Moneybags
13 Queen of rap
14 Penguin species
15 Diffuse through
16 They make waves in the ocean
17 Hollywood V.I.P.s: Abbr.
18 Roomba, for one
20 Bar at a roast
21 Called for
22 Sounded off
23 Bear in a 2012 film and its 2015 sequel
24 Not much
26 With 45-Across, not be direct … or what four groups of black squares in this puzzle do?
28 Parks who stood up for the right to sit down
29 Sequoia, e.g.
31 Financial promise
33 Certain lighters
35 Actor Peters of “American Horror Story”
36 Map-Quest feature
40 Impressionist artist?
44 Letter before Peter in the Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet
45 See 26-Across
47 Scam
48 Just fine
49 ___ acid
50 Little jerk
51 Alien such as Jabba
53 Methuselah’s father
55 Best Picture partly adapted from a C.I.A. operative’s book
56 Breakout consoles
58 “Grease” actress whose first name consists of the same two letters twice 60 “Let’s call it a day!”
61 Eight-time Gold Glove winner Jim
62 Forward
63 Nets with weights
DOWN
1 It might hold your glasses
2 Security cam sites
3 Certain nutritionist
4 “Our deeds still travel with us from ___, / And what we have been makes us what we are”: George Eliot
5 Zen enlightenment
6 “Whole” amount
7 Word before food, paradoxically?
8 Extreme fandom
9 Treasury bills?
10 #2 on Rolling Stone’s list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists”
11 Most open
12 Stressful time for a student
13 Played smoothly
15 Handle roughly
19 Well-timed
25 “The Many Loves of ___ Gillis”
26 Relative of a cockatoo
27 Provider of protection from the rain
28 Dressing choice
30 Red hair tint
32 Allowance
34 Penn : Wharton :: M.I.T. : ___
36 Jointly run
37 Personal website section
38 Soda can features
39 Scannable black-and-white boxes
41 They have soupedup engines
42 Endorses digitally
43 Drone’s job, maybe
46 Stop waffling
52 Sequoia, e.g.
53 Abbr. before a year
54 ___ cable (computer/TV connector)
55 Embarrassing spots?
57 John, in Scotland
59 Na+ or Cl–