NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Matchmaking

services? 8 Co- star of “The Office” who played Ryan Howard 15 In a classic form

of diamond 16 Victor’s

gloating cry 17 Rust 18 Technophobe 19 They may be

fluid: Abbr. 20 Banished 22 Smidgen 23 Shepherd’s pie

ingredients 25 Venture a view 26 Miss 27 Radiates 29 “No ___ can live forever”: Martin Luther King Jr. 30 Street hustler’s

game 31 Many a corny

pun 33 Bravado 35 Lord Tennyson’s

“The Eagle,” e. g. 36 Shaker’s cry? 37 Speed of sound 41 Baker’s shortcut 45 Certain

Bedouin 46 Aladdin’s

simian sidekick 48 Looks 49 Defeats by a

hair 50 Dumps 52 Auto parts

giant 53 “The enemy of ___ is the absence of limitations”: Orson Welles 54 Vehicle used by the police to catch thieves 56 “Delta of Venus”

author 57 Mob law? 59 Like many

screenplays 61 “The Call of ___” ( short story by H. P. Lovecraft) 62 Creamy Italian

dish 63 Colorful display in a weather report 64 Places in the

field

Down

1 Slumped 2 Cream in a

cobalt blue jar 3 “Once again …” 4 Trailblazed 5 Four- letter fruit pronounced in three syllables 6 “Au contraire

…” 7 The point of church above all? 8 Ghostwriters

lack them 9 Unit of energy 10 Like Rodin’s

“The Thinker” 11 Dated 12 Rendering

useless 13 Phoenician goddess of fertility 14 Snack company that’s a subsidiary of Kellogg’s 21 Top part of a

face 24 Capital of Newfoundland and Labrador 26 Reduce one’s carbon footprint 28 Copycat’s

comment 30 Targets 32 Comprehension 34 Ring letters 37 One referred to

as “the crown” 38 “You all agree with me, yes?,” in one word 39 Modern screen

test 40 Savor the praise 41 Stage holdup? 42 Had it in mind 43 Sacrilege 44 Tic- tac- toe

plays 47 Smidgen 50 ___ Baron Cohen, player of Borat 51 Title woman of

a Beatles song 54 Lip ___ 55 Scrape 58 Published 60 Party person,

for short