The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Crooked, as a painting on the wall

6 Nine-digit ID

9 How revenge

(or pizza for breakfast) is best served

13 Steeple

14 Noshed

15 Corporate rule or regulation

16 Concept that can’t be criticized or questioned, metaphorically 18 Tennis’s Agassi 19 Torah holders 20 Bigeye or yellowfin tuna, at a sushi bar

21 Feel great sorrow 22 Shout made with a fist pump

23 Seafood often served with picks 25 Dab, as with a paper towel 27 Chicago trains

28 Not showy 30 Language spoken in Bangkok

32 Ballet dancer’s knee bend 36 Pre-employment investigation 39 “A guy walks into a bar …” may start one

40 Caesar’s words to Brutus

41 Music Mann? 42 Shoofly ___

43 Norway’s biggest city

44 Cocktail named for two iconic beverage brands 50 Catch forty winks 53 Changes, as a hemline

54 22-Across, in French

55 Regarding

56 Latin for “in itself” 57 Behaved in a laidback way 59 Connections for car wheels

60 Author Edgar Allan ___

61 In an unusual way 62 Army’s football rival

63 Mr. Potato Head piece

64 Sell illegally, as tickets

DOWN

1 Test for purity 2 What a diagonal line represents on a bowling scoresheet 3 Relaxes

4 Commits a fumble 5 Small, to a Scot 6 Borat creator ___ Baron Cohen 7 Showing no emotion

8 Either “N” in NY, NY

9 Jaded doubter 10 More ancient 11 Stage in a butterfly’s development 12 Socially inept sort 15 Poets of yore

17 It’s tossed toward a bull’s-eye

21 Frozen

23 Viet ___ (armed force of the 1960s-’70s) 24 Reeves of the “Matrix” films 26 Thumbs-up on Facebook

28 Gooey lunchbox sandwich, informally 29 Language spoken in Vientiane 30 Schlepped 31 Primitive dwelling 32 TV’s Dr. ___

33 San Pellegrino offering

34 “Rocks” that clink in a drink

35 _ _ _ out a living 37 Rider’s handful

38 Assignment for a lawyer

42 Removes skin from 43 “The Grapes of Wrath” figure 44 Mount Fuji’s locale 45 Amazon “assistant” 46 PC command to paste

47 Ken who wrote “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” 48 Hot drink with marshmallows 49 Word before space or limits

51 Coral islet chain 52 Coral reef producer

55 “Highway to Hell” rock group … or a hint to electrical switches found in 16-, 23-, 36-, 44and 57-Across 57 Gorilla, e.g.

58 Uno + uno