THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Birthplace of St. Clare 7 Mustang alternative

13 “Oh, I don't care”

15 Last name in astronomy 16 Winner of 13 Outstanding Drama Series Emmys

18 Snack 19 Spark 20 Email address ending 21 Form of “sum”

23 Hillock 24 Elite- type school

25 What does follow?

27 St. ___ ( site of a spring vacay) 29 Micronesian nation composed of hundreds of islands

32 Busy W. Coast airport

34 ___ bar

38 Prepare for entombment, say 39 “___ Eye Is on the Sparrow” ( hymn) 40 Kemper who plays Kimmy on “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”

41 Ones involved in wishful thinking?

42 ___- quoted

43 Features of some apartments

44 Elizabeth ___, “Pirates of the Caribbean” protagonist

45 “Deck the Halls” contraction

46 Foreign currency option 47 Rips ( on)

49 ___ Candy, Wonder Woman’s best friend 50 Spanish chess piece 52 Pot- au-___

( French stew)

54 1980s TV star known for wearing chains

55 First- tier supervisor in the U. S. M. C.

58 Colorful, cold treats 60 “S’pose so” 62 Badlands National Park feature 63 Available

64 Words of understanding? 65 Reach by air

DOWN

1 “Shucks!”

2 Clip

3 Pole star?

4 Suffix with

Jersey

5 Contents of IV bags 6 The Trump who wrote “The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life” 7 Knight ’ hood?

8 Mont Blanc, par exemple

9 One’s Nintendo avatar

10 Revamp

11 Lincoln Center’s Walter ___ Theater 12 Get ready for a Mr. Olympia competition, say 14 What some of the black squares in the grid might represent

15 Another thing they might represent

17 Blue Cross offering, briefly

22 Winter Palace resident 24 Burn rubber

26 Another thing they might represent

28 One more thing they might represent

29 “Little” trio in kiddie lit 30 Again

31 Approximately 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes 33 Diminutive of Josephine

35 Senator in 2017 news 36 Puente of “The Mambo Kings”

37 Oil and gas giant 48 Photo tone 49 Swashbuckling Flynn 50 Having sat in the locker room way too long 51 Relative of cream

53 Puts into service

54 Tick off

56 Abbr. at the bottom of a page of text

57 Words with hold or pass 59 Filling food?

61 Dernier ___ ( latest thing)