The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Piece for Leontyne Price 5 Recipe measures: Abbr. 9 ___-play 13 Something produced by a dogwood tree … or a dog 14 Like a blue moon

15 New York State’s ___ Canal 16 Mine, in Le Mans 17 Rights advocate who campaigned for 53-Across 19 What 53-Across changed

21 A choir might sing in it 22 Zeus, to Rhea 23 One meas. of economic activity 26 Cul-de-___ 27 Nickelodeon’s “Kenan & ___” 29 Call it a day 31 Wild

33 Compulsively particular, say 34 Subject of 53-Across 39 Grad

40 Front of a pig 41 Seven Sisters school in the Hudson Valley 44 “If ___ doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for?”: Alice Walker 45 Computer key usually hit with the left pinkie 48 Tonsillitis-treating doc 49 Expected, as a baby 51 Balkan land whose capital is Pristina 53 Measure fully ratified on 8/18/1920 56 36th state to ratify 53-Across, resulting in its passage 58 Narrow estuaries 59 Jason’s ship, in myth 60 Fill-in worker

61 Girl of Green Gables 62 [OMG!] 63 Bullring cries 64 “Hey, you!”

Down

1 Simple adding device

2 ___ Quimby of children’s literature 3 Alanis Morissette song about unfortunate situations 4 “Sealed With ___”

5 Some gym

personnel

6 One reason

dogs lick us is for this, it’s believed 7 Toyota hybrid 8 Division of the

economy 9 Defaulter’s loss,

informally

10 Citrus drink often sold in a pear-shaped bottle

11 Lucy who played Watson on “Elementary” 12 Slithery fish 18 German article 20 Coin in an arcade 24 “We’re all born naked and the rest is ___”: RuPaul 25 Brazilian soccer great 28 Scottish miss 30 Sour 31 Ladies, slangily 32 Moon goddess 34 Surfer’s need 35 Heroine in Pearl Buck’s “The Good Earth”

36 Ford Motor muscle cars

37 Without the possibility of being taken back 38 Foldable bed 42 Ending with chick 43 Totals 45 What juice cleanses are supposed to get rid of 46 Feathered creatures 47 Complete DVD collection, maybe 50 Ford Motor flop of the 1950s

52 Bra part 54 Pre-Q quartet 55 Grumpy Cat or Doge, e.g. 56 Kids’ game with a lot of running 57 Period in history