The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Someone who cares too much? 17 Serious competition 18 It sends waves through waves 19 College Board offering, for short 20 Guarded 21 Nincompoop 22 Age 24 Foggy condition 27 They go to the dogs 29 Unrelenting 34 Stops streaming 35 Part of ISIL 36 Small slice of pizza? 37 Party hearty 38 X

39 Help in a gym 40 Poetic preposition 41 Draconian 42 Ex-Expo Rusty 43 Deliveries in the early 1940s 45 Hardly generous 46 Santa ___ 47 They have strong teeth 48 Salinger title girl 51 Prey for an eagle or bear 54 Monster of TV 57 Sophomoric rejoinder 61 1958 Bobby Freeman hit covered by the Beach Boys and the Ramones 62 Be beneficial to

Down

1 Part of a locker 2 Love symbol that names another love symbol if you move the first letter to the end 3 Moon buggy 4 Kick-start 5 Banned pollutant, for short 6 A large quantity 7 Show a way vanity, in 8 Have a large quantity of liquor ___’acte Drink after a 10 11 12 9 race, say Pressure meas. French toast maker, maybe 13 14-line poem with only two rhymes 14 Prefix with sperm 15 “No ___” 16 Veteran’s opposite 23 Certain letter addendum, for short 25 Result of an oil surplus 26 25-Down unit 27 Thread holder 28 Santa ___ 29 Word from the French for “mixed” 30 Civil rights icon Medgar 31 Quick way through a toll plaza 32 Summer Olympics host before Barcelona 33 Save for later 35 Giant 38 Eugene in labor history 39 Gives a blank look 41 ___ Jorge (one of the Azores) 42 “He who holds the ___ must be master of the empire”: Cicero 44 Native of NW France 45 Kind of acting 47 Spirit 48 Some sked predictions 49 Completely ruined 50 Itzamna worshipers 52 Requested service 53 Palindromic man’s name 55 It’s flaky 56 Had too much, in brief 58 Dijon-to-Lyon direction 59 Teens fight, for short 60 Story assigners, in brief