The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Tibetan monk 5 On the ___

(fleeing) 8 Something caught in a theater 13 Bajillions 14 Emotion that

may be pent up 15 Saoirse of

“Lady Bird” 16 Famous

fighting words 19 Highmaintenance star

20 Spiritual leader who rides in a customized car 21 Musician

Bartók or Fleck 22 Took to court 23 Item made of ingredients grown without pesticides 29 Good number

to shoot for 30 As well 31 “Tightrope”

singer Janelle 32 They’s pronoun

partner 34 Uberfan, in

modern lingo 37 Machines that remove cotton seeds 38 “Honestly,

though …” 40 Web crawler, of

a sort

42 Up to,

informally 43 Color-matching puzzle game with billions of downloads 47 Acronym for a champion among champions 48 100 cents 49 “Mind ...

blown!”

53 “My Sister’s Keeper” author Picoult

54 Travel crosscountry … or a description of what 16-, 23and 43-Across do?

58 Sch. founded

by Ben Franklin 59 Old “You’ve got

mail” sloganeer 60 Radio dial 61 Good thing to have on the books

62 Pick up 63 “Neither rain nor snow …” org.

Down

1 Hammurabi’s area of expertise 2 Chicken ___

king 3 Misunderstood song lyric like “’Scuse me while I kiss this guy”

4 Hun from whom Dracula claims to be descended, in Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”

5 Pop star Dua

___

6 Horror director

Aster 7 Rendezvous

(with)

8 Battle cry in

“Braveheart” 9 Roller coaster

feature

10 What is offered when you call 411

11 Overly theatrical, as a B-movie 12 Part of pants that may be well worn 17 ___-garde 18 “Clueless”

protagonist 21 Hindu god of

creation 22 Ewan McGregor or Craig Ferguson, by birth 23 That’s some

nerve!

24 Siri’s platform 25 Jackapoo or

schnoodle 26 Christians who don’t believe in the Trinity 27 “Are we done

here?” 28 Scientist on one side of the “War of the Currents” 33 Fuming 35 Share a border

with

36 Votes

against 39 Lawrence Taylor, for all his N.F.L. career, in brief 41 Teen drama that inspired “Laguna Beach”

44 Pulls a fast one

on

45 Motley 46 Puzzle craze of

2006

49 The rain in

Spain? 50 Brooms : Roombas :: ___ : Scoobas 51 “Pocket rockets,” in poker

52 The “Z” of ZIP

code

53 Cola brand with a lightning bolt in its logo 55 Single digit? 56 Soak (up) 57 Onetime network for Conan O’Brien