The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Hit hard
5 Beats it
11 Org. with the Wizards and Warriors
14 Prefix meaning “wine” 15 Pub spigot
16 Path of a blooper 17 Rating for many a sitcom 18 Ahab’s inspiration? 19 Give a whuppin’ 20 *Acts phony 22 Chopin piece
24 Sweat units 25 Beehive contents
26 Carl who wrote “Contact” 29 “WTF With Marc Maron,” for one
32 Industry kingpin 33 2002 animated film with a woolly mammoth 36 Warm, action-oriented sort, they say
37 Part of SOS, in popular usage 38 Each asterisked clue vis-à-vis its answer 39 Little trickster 40 Scepter’s go-with
41 Like an evangelical Christian
42 Phrase on a yard sale tag
43 Kitchen gadgets for mixing
45 Unable to sit still 46 Mother that might have a beard 47 Fast-food utensil 50 2000s teen drama set in California 52 *Hint: hotel 56 Sharpshooter’s asset 57 Kevin ___, investor on TV’s “Shark Tank” 59 As a result
60 Rx watchdog 61 Sweetums 62 Alaska, before 1959: abbr.
63 Start of many CB radio codes 64 Stands in a studio 65 “So it may ___”
DOWN
1 Ones always tossing things back? 2 Impose, as a tax 3 Potentially offensive, in brief
4 Relative of a discotheque
5 One of the Obama daughters
6 Implore
7 Slants
8 “Let’s leave ___ that” 9 Mai ___
10 Order from a police officer
11 *A trails nut
12 Thin fastener
13 Target of an astringent 21 “The tongue of the mind,” per Cervantes 23 Little jerk
25 Paul of “Crocodile Dundee”
26 Cartoon uncle of Scrappy-Doo, informally 27 Bright blue
28 *Bag manager 29 Catherine who married Henry VIII
30 Big rigs
31 Young slave girl in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” 33 Like gases in the rightmost column of the periodic table 34 They measure miles in meters
35 “I” strain?
38 One of seven for New York City 42 Common wear for female tennis players 44 Besides
45 Shapiro of NPR 47 Social media button 48 Danger 49 “Absolutely!” 50 President who later served as chief justice 51 Cry to guests at a surprise party 52 Twinings products
53 One leaving in the spring? 54 Brutish sort 55 Average guy? 58 Pasture