The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 “No, really” 8 Sort

15 Carpet cleaner 16 High-minded

sort?

17 Give a flat fee? 18 Back in the

stadium 19 [Can you believe they wrote this?!] 21 TV commentator Navarro 22 Abbr. in math

class

23 Stock at a

wine bar

27 Off the wall 30 Battle of Soissons setting

32 Place for a

miniature flag 33 Goon 34 Weapon with a rope and balls 35 Literary nickname for Dolores

36 One of the Smithsonian buildings 39 What “they” can only be, to grammar sticklers 40 Enliven,

with “up” 41 Signal

42 Iowa town where Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” is set 43 Shade of red 44 Word with chicken or news

45 Go here and

there

46 Tight spot 47 Scare quote? 49 Pitch to a

publisher 55 Paper that runs

mots croisés 58 Seeing someone, say

59 When Caesar says “Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look” 60 Prized sheep 61 1831 Poe work 62 Prizes

Down

1 Carnival Cruise

stop

2 Twosome

3 ___ tide

4 Walk alluringly 5 “Well …” 6 Aspires to do

something 7 “Star Trek:

T.N.G.” role 8 Mount near

Haifa

9 Like a

squashed circle 10 Peugeot symbol

11 It may come long after the play 12 Gangbusters,

for short? 13 “___ soon?” 14 Go astray 20 Exercise started

by crouching 24 Per 25 Not stray

26 Did phenomenally onstage 27 Debugging

tool? 28 Cyclops killer of myth

29 Poet who wrote “Tonight I can write the saddest lines” 31 Ayaan Hirsi ___, Somali-born advocate for women’s rights and religious freedom 32 Online

hilarity 34 Healthful breakfast choice 35 Do-nothing 37 Ska band

instrument 38 Be garrulous 43 Make hand

over fist 44 Epicure 46 “Doctor Who” actress Whittaker 48 Good genre for a maze maker

50 Intro to Torts

student

51 “The Bicycle

Thief” setting 52 All together, so

to speak 53 Bond collector? 54 Not so great 55 W.W. II craft:

Abbr.

56 Prosustainability, in lingo

57 “It doesn’t

excite me”