The New York Times crossword puzzle

No. 0125

Across

1 Some metal bands?

4 Not get involved

9 P.I. 12 Sellout 13 1950s service site 14 Hamilton, to Burr 16 *Smelled 18 Group of football blockers, in brief

19 Point on a flowchart 20 Picnic crasher 21 Pitiful group 22 On the lookout 24 *They’re not pros 26 Solving crosswords, e.g. 28 Gurneys’ destinations, in brief

29 Part of a disguise 30 Who wrote and sang “We’re All Water” in 1972

31 #21 of 24 32 Lush 33 Yachter’s itinerary, maybe … or a hint to understanding the answers to the starred clues 37 Clove hitch, e.g. 38 “Reading the ___: One Man, One Year, 21 730 Pages” (2008 book) 39 Hotel room feature: Abbr. 40 Back to school? 41 Ones doing intros

42 “The Love Song of

J. Alfred Prufrock” poet 46 *Poetry 49 Middleton of English tabloids 50 Hard-wired 51 Something encountered in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” 53 “Um, don’t look now, but …” 54 Boastful mother of Greek myth 55 *Hayloft item 57 Now full 58 Skirt 59 “Illmatic” rapper

60 ___ Échos (French daily) 61 Top-2% group 62 Is from Issy?

Down

1 “Did you just see that?!” 2 Cough drop brand 3 Some works of Robert Schumann 4 Music boomlet of the mid-’90s 5 Smidgen 6 A witch doctor might be in one 7 Japanese meal in a box 8 Beat one’s gums

9 Part of España 10 Person with inverted morality 11 Olympics event since 1936 14 Stadium sounds 15 “Come on!” 17 Playwright Brecht 21 Things with entrances and exits 23 Turner on a turntable 25 Neighborhood in New York or L.A. 27 Accessory on a chain 31 Goal of many a candidate 32 Member of the British royal family 33 Not wanting to believe the truth 34 Unpleasant ending

35 Ball boy? 36 Tiniest complaint 37 Durant and Love of the N.B.A.

41 Got together 42 Polytetrafluoroethylene, familiarly 43 Notable tech launch of 2007 44 Composition of “Der Ring des Nibelungen” 45 Most docile 47 Swaddled ones 48 Debonair 52 Los Angeles’s ___ College of Art and Design 55 “Kapow!” 56 Neighbor of Wyo.