The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Given the short end of the stick 8 Prone

11 What many Brits don’t spell “realize” with

14 500, e.g. 15 Natural energy source 17 Designer behind the Dolly Girl perfume 18 Really stress 19 Wind sounds 20 Strong

connection? 21 Locale in “Do the Right Thing” 24 Where the

Shannon flows 25 One may be

straight

26 Put down 29 Disconcert 32 Spirit 34 Excessively

sentimental 35 No more 36 Trim, in a way 38 Own (up) 39 Tapes, maybe 41 Impudence,

slangily

42 For the taking 43 Bacchanals 45 Flower girl,

sometimes 47 Like a control

freak 48 Classic sitcom

sign-off

52 Big appetite 55 House shower 56 H&M

competitor 57 Providers of limited coverage? 59 Noodge 60 1983 song that begins “Hate New York City” 61 Only word spoken in Mel Brooks’s “Silent Movie” 62 Back again 63 “That’s no

challenge”

Down

1 Rogue

2 Tower of ___ (classic math puzzle)

3 Desi Jr. of the 1960s group Dino, Desi & Billy

4 His assassination sparked W.W. I 5 Tarboosh

feature

6 Coin introduced

by Louis IX 7 ___ gratia 8 Famed Indian

burial site 9 Took for a fool 10 Food processors, informally 11 One involved in monkey business? 12 Titular Salinger

girl

13 Puma

prey 16 Campaign of

flattery 20 Humorous as opposed to strange 22 Wished could be undone

23 Key

27 Place to

pray

28 Where Molson Coors is TAP

29 Feeling that everyone’s having fun without you, in modern lingo

30 More than

conjecture 31 Place of outdoor meditation 33 Tennis’s

Petrova

37 ___ Vogue 40 Harbor

seal

44 Dieter’s piece of cake? 46 Crackpot 49 Trouble in the

night 50 Catches in the

act

51 Retract 52 Skiing great Lindsey 53 Nondairy

spread 54 Newbie

57 Jot

58 1969 Peace

Prize agcy.