The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Terra ___ (old name for Newfoundland) 5 Symbol for

torque 8 Malfunction 13 1977 Lucas

film

15 Jewish organization known for its outreach work 17 Dish featuring corn chips as a main ingredient 18 Regarding this

matter

19 Took top

honors

20 1871 Eliot

novel

22 Stamp

collector’s unit 23 Immigrant’s course, for short 24 Syllable in

oldies songs 25 Off-axis

28 Dial, e.g. 30 1924 Gershwin

composition 35 Self-referential 36 Bush denizen,

for short 37 Lead-in to boy 39 2010 Bush

autobiography 44 Coupling

device 45 Heavily

involved 46 Actor Robert of 1970s-’80s TV’s “Quincy, M.E.”

49 Early platform for The Legend of Zelda, for short

50 Colony

members 51 1970 Harrison

song

54 Wifey, with

“the” 57 Looking

skyward 58 Easy way to get information on something nowadays 60 Raising of

spirits? 61 Exclamation that describes 13-, 20-, 30-, 39- and 51-Across 62 Fire

63 ___ chi ch’uan 64 Gymnastics event, informally

Down

1 [Warning: explicit content] 2 Other, in

Oaxaca 3 Pointless 4 “___ does not surpass nature, but only brings it to perfection”: Cervantes 5 Access

6 Bum ___ 7 Amazon

category 8 Secretary of state during the Korean War

9 Place to find solutions in school 10 Plantation of book and film

11 Some paid

rides 12 Aid in quitting

smoking 14 Word before Day or World on magazine racks

16 Capital of Qatar 21 Scrape or cut 22 Office of the

Vatican

25 Place for a

12-Down 26 Sloughed off 27 Like the baby in a 91/2-month pregnancy 29 Highland

patterns

31 Like the Atacama Desert among all places on earth 32 “___-hoo!” 33 Magazine founder

Eric

34 Suffix with

major 38 “Poor venomous fool,” in Shakespeare 40 Playwright

Eugène 41 Flying pest,

slangily 42 Polish

dumpling 43 Nervous 46 Shock jock Don 47 Sort with a high-energy personality 48 “And the ___

goes to …” 50 Celebratory

cry

52 T.S.A. tool 53 Letters associated with a rainbow flag 54 Just

55 Baltic capital 56 Modern education acronym 59 High throw

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