The New York Times crossword puzzle No. 0212
Across
1 Vegetable that can get slimy when overcooked
5 Exhausted, with “up”
8 Basketball shots from beyond the arc
14 Frozen treats
16 Locale in the Lord’s Prayer
17 Optimistic maxim from Virgil
19 “You ___ me one”
20 Chart topper
21 Fanfare
22 Jacob had
12 of them
23 Call to a toreador
24 Genre for Fall Out Boy
27 Reliable things, to Ben Franklin
30 Business index, with “the”
31 Chi-Town or Beantown team
32 Team sharing an arena with the Flyers, informally
33 Means of control
35 Bit of Halloween décor
37 About
38 Mint in a tin
40 Research facility
42 Extra periods, in brief
43 They make loud noises during showers
46 Nurse
47 Lead-in to a Pen used by nurses
48 Old Pontiacs
49 Pasta ___ Norma
50 Actress Hagen
51 Car rental add-on
54 Overly optimistic 1910s appellation
59 “Let me try that again …”
60 Phrase on an egg carton
61 Pest
62 What each set of circled letters is, relative to the first word in its answer
63 Tumbler turners
Down
1 Where Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” is displayed
2 Apt radio station to air “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!” (and it does!)
3 Ramble
4 Hole in one
5 Selects, as a successor
6 Circus
7 Name ender for a lawyer
8 Parents and grandparents, in teen lingo
9 Airtight
10 Scrape
11 “Me” in the Oscar-winning song “You Must Love Me” 12 Moray, e.g.
13 Where an artist works on a sketch, for short?
15 Lorena who was the #1 female golfer for 158 consecutive weeks
18 Atop
22 Affixed, like a patch
24 Puts forth, as effort
25 Paid soldiers, informally
26 Mount near Olympus
27 Throw a party grandly
28 Leaps on the ice
29 Starts to geometric proofs
30 Home to India’s Red Fort and Lotus Temple
33 “Shoot!”
34 Indirect, as a glance
36 Fertilizer found in caves
39 Use up
41 Alternative to canned
44 Director Johnson
45 Dahl who wrote “James and the Giant Peach”
49 Not much
51 Stare intensely
52 Hunted animals
53 Entries on 1040s, for short
54 Come out ahead
55 Start of a Latin conjugation
56 Old auto with its founder’s monogram
57 Follow relentlessly
58 Pad Thai pan