NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across 1 Benchwarmer 6 Shut loudly 10 Calendar units: Abbr.

13 Dried plums 15 Part of a brain or a 59-Down 16 Cry at a fireworks show 17 Beach outing, say

19 Hit CBS forensics series 20 Movie filming locale 21 Merchandise 22 TV studio alert 24 Ice cream drink 25 Engender, as suspicion 26 High point of winter? 29 Sound of ice cream hitting the floor

31 On easy street 35 Raw metals

36 + or – particle 37 Stick in one’s ___ 39 Financially afloat again

44 Adds to the

payroll 45 Comics’ goals 46 Mother of

Calcutta

49 Nota ___ 50 Mobile app’s

clientele 51 Sweeping

stories

53 Cry at a

fireworks show 56 Instagram upload, informally 57 Traffic helicopter, e.g. 60 “Four score and seven years ___ …” 61 Landlord’s due 62 Partner of “signed” and “delivered” in a Stevie Wonder hit 63 Anderson Cooper’s channel 64 Utters 65 Wear down

Down 1 Coppertone stats, for short 2 Mötley ___ 3 Peewee 4 Prefix meaning “one”

5 Most widely spoken native language of India, after Hindi 6 Toboggan, e.g. 7 L’s meaning, in box scores 8 Aladdin’s

monkey sidekick 9 Hanukkah

display

10 Asian gambling

mecca

11 Refuge in the

desert

12 Suffix in many English county names

14 Like a thief ’s loot 18 Like a thief ’s loot, slangily 23 “Beats me!” 24 Dutch artist known for his “impossible” drawings 25 Gore and Capone, for two 26 “I think,” in textspeak 27 Low-___ diet 28 Brainchild 29 Drinks not meant to be savored 30 Phnom ___ (capital of Cambodia) 32 Fork prong 33 RuPaul’s purview

34 A pop 38 Calendar units: Abbr. 40 Pieholes 41 Savings plan, for short 42 Votes into office 43 Gaelic spirit who wails to foretell a death in the family 46 Rapper Shakur 47 Provide one’s digital John Hancock 48 Military infogathering 49 Recycling receptacle 51 ___-weeny (small)

52 Very bad, with “the” 53 Nobel Peace Prize city 54 Ratified, for short 55 Jekyll’s bad side 58 Senate assent 59 Place for a stud or a ring