THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Hit hard

5 Beats it

11 Org. with the Wizards and Warriors

14 Prefix meaning

“wine”

15 Pub spigot

16 Path of a blooper 17 Rating for many a sitcom

18 Ahab’s inspiration?

19 Give a whuppin’

20 * Acts phony

22 Chopin piece

24 Sweat units

25 Beehive contents 26 Carl who wrote “Contact”

29 “WTF With Marc Maron,” for one 32 Industry kingpin 33 2002 animated film with a woolly

| mammoth

36 Warm, action- oriented sort, they say

37 Part of S O S, in popular usage 38 Each asterisked clue vis- à- vis its answer 39 Little trickster 40 Scepter’s go- with 41 Like an evangelical Christian 42 Phrase on a yard sale tag 43 Kitchen gadgets for mixing 45 Unable to sit still 46 Mother that might have a beard 47 Fast- food utensil 50 2000s teen drama set in California 52 * Hint: hotel 56 Sharpshooter’s asset 57 Kevin ___, investor on TV’s “Shark Tank” 59 As a result 60 Rx watchdog 61 Sweetums 62 Alaska, before 1959: Abbr. 63 Start of many CB radio codes 64 Stands in a studio

DOWN

1 Ones always tossing things back? 2 Impose, as a tax 3 Potentially offensive, in brief 4 Relative of a discotheque 5 One of the Obama daughters 6 Implore 7 Slants 8 “Let’s leave ___ that” 9 Mai ___ 10 Order from a police officer 11 * A trails nut 12 Thin fastener 13 Target of an astringent 21 “The tongue of the mind,” per Cervantes 23 Little jerk 25 Paul of “Crocodile Dundee” 26 Cartoon uncle of Scrappy- Doo, informally 27 Bright blue

28 * Bag manager

29 Catherine who married Henry VIII

30 Big rigs

31 Young slave girl in

“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

33 Like gases in the rightmost column of the periodic table

34 They measure miles in meters

35 “I” strain?

38 One of seven for

New York City

42 Common wear for female tennis players

44 Besides

45 Shapiro of NPR

47 Social media button 48 Danger

49 “Absolutely!”

50 President who later served as chief justice

51 Cry to guests at a surprise party

52 Twinings products

53 One leaving in the spring? 54 Brutish sort

55 Average guy?

58 Pasture