NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Order with four periods

5 Relative of mustard

10 Worked a reception, say, informally

14 What might be followed in an investigation

16 Kind of pants

17 It’s often found on bow ties

18 Booted up, say?

19 Nickname in 1950s-’60s TV

20 Some members of a blended family

22 River of Hades

24 Back

25 “___ America (And So Can You!)” (Stephen Colbert best seller)

28 Name names

29 Salon offering

30 Tease, with “on”

33 Flew private, for instance

37 Is super punctual

38 Make no plans

39 It traditionally starts with a strophe

40 Saucer contents, for short

41 Terence ___, Fields Medalwinning mathematician

42 Prefix with cortex

43 Things sometimes named after scientists

45 Secret ___

47 Loves, and then some

49 Cusps

52 Low joint

53 In a manner of speaking?

56 Company that uses about 1% of the world’s wood supply annually

57 It ends with a big splash

58 Distinguished fellows

59 Mortimer ___, famed ventriloquy dummy of old

60 Longevous

Down

1 Twitch, say

2 Onetime subsidiary of G.M.

3 Word that sounds like a plural of 1-Down

4 Corolla part

5 Decisive periods, in brief

6 Activities for dummies

7 High-end

8 It may be served in a bed

9 1980 black-andwhite film that was nominated for Best Picture, with “The”

10 Maker of the Supersonic hair dryer

11 England’s first poet laureate (1668)

12 They’re big in Hollywood

13 TV’s “American ___”

15 Glowing things

21 Staples of old westerns

23 Gifts are displayed in these

25 ___ disco (European music genre)

26 Secret alternative

27 Look at with awe

29 Port authority?

31 Uniquely

32 Reach

34 Focus of une biographie

35 Oafish outburst

36 Pro follower

44 Spots

45 Avalanche

46 St. Teresa’s birthplace

47 It means “be quick” in Hawaiian

48 Where zardozi embroidery is prevalent

50 Juul, e.g., informally

51 “Soldier of Love” singer, 2009

52 An opening to “closing”

54 Chi-Town airport code

55 Championed