NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Crooked, as a painting on the wall
6 Nine-digit ID
9 How revenge (or pizza for breakfast) is best served
13 Steeple
14 Noshed
15 Corporate rule or regulation
16 Concept that can’t be criticized or questioned, metaphorically
18 Tennis’s Agassi
19 Torah holders
20 Bigeye or yellowfin tuna, at a sushi bar
21 Feel great sorrow
22 Shout made with a fist pump
23 Seafood often served with picks
25 Dab, as with a paper towel
27 Chicago trains
28 Not showy
30 Language spoken in Bangkok
32 Ballet dancer’s knee bend
36 Preemployment investigation
39 “A guy walks into a bar ...” may start one
40 Caesar’s words to Brutus
41 Music Mann?
42 Shoofly ___
43 Norway’s biggest city
44 Cocktail named for two iconic beverage brands
50 Catch forty winks
53 Changes, as a hemline
54 22-Across, in French
55 Regarding
56 Latin for “in itself”
57 Behaved in a laid-back way
59 Connections for car wheels
60 Author Edgar Allan ___
61 In an unusual way
62 Army’s football rival
63 Mr. Potato Head piece
64 Sell illegally, as tickets
DOWN
1 Test for purity
2 What a diagonal line represents on a bowling scoresheet
3 Relaxes
4 Commits a fumble
5 Small, to a Scot
6 Borat creator ___
Baron Cohen
7 Showing no emotion
8 Either “N” in N.Y., N.Y.
9 Jaded doubter
10 More ancient
11 Stage in a butterfly’s development
12 Socially inept sort
15 Poets of yore
17 It’s tossed toward a bull’s-eye
21 Frozen
23 Viet ___ (armed force of the 1960s-’70s)
24 Reeves of the “Matrix” films
26 Thumbs-up on Facebook
28 Gooey lunchbox sandwich, informally
29 Language spoken in Vientiane
30 Schlepped
31 Primitive dwelling
32 TV’s Dr. ___
33 San Pellegrino offering
34 “Rocks” that clink in a drink
35 ___ out a living
37 Rider’s handful
38 Assignment for a lawyer
42 Removes skin from
43 “The Grapes of Wrath” figure
44 Mount Fuji’s locale
45 Amazon “assistant”
46 PC command to paste
47 Ken who wrote “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
48 Hot drink with marshmallows
49 Word before space or limits
51 Coral islet chain
52 Coral reef producer 55 “Highway to Hell” rock group ... or a hint to electrical switches found in 16-, 23-, 36-, 44and 57-Across
57 Gorilla, e.g.
58 Uno + uno