NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across 1 Honor in a big

way 5 “The Aviator”

actor, 2004 9 Fictional

swordsman 14 Stoked 15 Province of NW

Spain 16 Word that’s its own synonym when its first two letters are replaced with “w” 17 “At the ___” ( subtitle of a 1978 hit) 18 Fellow 19 Relatives of

kites 20 N. E. A.

member?: Abbr. 21 Language

related to Hopi 23 Terse response

to an order 24 “Well, yeah!” 25 Md or Rn fig. 26 Notable 1973

defendant 27 Establishes 31 Dickens character “with a dead lull about her” 33 University in

Melbourne 35 Occasional

meat eater 37 Carl Sagan’s sequel to “Cosmos” 39 Gloss 42 Quick to put up,

in a way 44 Great Trek figure of the 1830s 45 Spring’s cyclic

counterpart 47 Company behind Hitchcock’s “Notorious” 48 One making bank- to- bank transfers? 49 James and

Jones of jazz 51 Battles 52 Dungeons &

Dragons race 54 “___ it up and spit it out” (“My Way” lyric) 55 What’s more 56 Totally occupy 57 Trailer segment 58 Color close to

puce 59 Like many

towels 60 One of two areas on a football line 61 Play award?

Down 1 Front 2 See how many

hits you get, say 3 Five- star 4 Pulitzerwinning novelist Jennifer 5 Fountain

growth 6 1994- 2000 TV

talk show 7 “Who’da thunk

it?!” 8 During

pregnancy 9 Crush 10 Be subtly and snarkily insulting 11 “Girls” girl played by Lena Dunham 12 Portmanteau in the frozen food aisle 13 Word with

sound or storm 22 Part of many a

scandal 28 Peddler of religious literature 29 Attempt to cure 30 Like many

major highways 32 Less genial 34 Science of

nutrition 36 Basic 38 Starts to

practice 39 Jim ___, onehanded Yankee who pitched a no- hitter in 1993 40 Knuckleheaded antic? 41 Like Mars

vis- à- vis Jupiter 43 Like centerfolds, typically 46 Grill setting 50 9/ 51 Use an e- cig 53 Bug catcher,

maybe