NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 What a cat’s meow might mean

9 Starchless, as

some foods 15 Peak in the HawaiianEmperor seamount chain 16 1957’s “Attack of the Crab Monsters,” for one

17 Actor Sean does some things that aren’t nice 19 What Odysseus was bound to during the sirens’ song

20 Turner with many

Grammys 21 Feature of some

Indian music 22 Role-play

23 Sierra runners 26 Silent film star Bara didn’t want to leave us 34 Little shots? 35 Vintage Camaro

owner’s boast? 36 ___ Day (May 1,

in Hawaii) 37 Break

38 An artist might

blow it

40 Carpe ___

41 Half dos 42 California’s ___ Woods National Monument 43 Firm refusal 44 Artist Édouard mistakenly proposed 11:00

48 TV detective Bosch’s former org.

49 Sites for some

docs

50 Touch

53 Cut-off pants? 55 Hand over 59 Fictional lawyer Perry cries “I give!” 63 Peninsula south

of the Pyrenees 64 Differentiate 65 Explorer from

63-Across

66 1545 treatise whose rearranged letters aptly suggest 17-, 26-, 44- and 59-Across

Down

1 Prayer leader 2 Tamale dough 3 Rustic refuges 4 Storage ___ 5 Photographer

Goldin 6 Procedural flaw 7 Elmo’s turquoise

amiga

8 “Life of Pi”

novelist Martel 9 Trail Blazers’ org. 10 Meditation

sounds

11 Rough 12 Alternative to

Reebok 13 Hobbit Frodo’s

cloaking device 14 Test version 18 Wild horses couldn’t drag them away, presumably 22 Some remote batteries 24 Bothers 25 Govt. health agency

26 Hum monotonously 27 Spotted

scavenger 28 Printer brand 29 What’s the point? 30 Heady weapon wielded by Wonder Woman? 31 Sync up

32 “The Brandon ___ Story” (1998 documentary) 33 Handmade sign

at a stadium 38 “Forrest ___” 39 Misled

40 One of five in

Yahtzee 42 Underground

org. of New York 43 “Dynamite”

K-pop group 45 Six Flags ride named for a powerful animal 46 Lunchtime tryst 47 Entities holding

property 50 Within 51 Bunyan’s ox or

Hoggett’s pig 52 Applications 54 Tabula ___ 55 Manilow’s “hottest spot north of Havana,” informally 56 Online zine 57 Swear to mend

things?

58 “Cómo ___

usted?”

60 Minor fault 61 Long March

leader

62 Where 38-Down

served, for short