The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 One’s marriage
or graduation
7 Ring punch
10 Operate smoothly 13 Charm City baseballer 14 Be shown up
16 ___ City Hall, 36- Acrossdesigned building
( 1978)
17 Sites of some strikes 18 “The Winding Stair” poet 19 Ballerina’s hairdo 20 Omnipotent and allmerciful one, in Islam 21 Chicken ___
23 Place for an Atlas
24 With 10- Down,
36- Across- designed museum ( 1995)
29 Do a little stretching? 32 Under control
33 Ricotta cheese source 34 Get an ___ effort 35 Come to nothing 36 Subject of this puzzle
( 1917- 2019)
38 Runner’s space
39 Script unit
40 Land in the ocean 41 Claymation pal of
Wallace
43 It’s a big stretch 44 Portmanteau for
36- Across
46 Help for the disabled? 48 On ___ ( running by itself) 49 Sicilia and Sardegna 51 Jack ( up)
52 Classic opera in which every leading character dies
57 Asian capital designed by British urban planners
59 With 26- Down, 36- Acrossdesigned Hong Kong skyscraper ( 1990) 60 Warty arboreal
creature
61 Mystical and puzzling 62 Stick in a boat 63 Stand in ( for) 64 Places
DOWN
1 Soul mate?
2 “Dies ___” ( hymn) 3 River to the Colorado 4 Noodlehead
5 One who calls Nome
home
6 “Thumbs up!”
7 Enroll in
8 “Talking” with one’s
hands, for short 9 Bawl over
10 See 24- Across 11 Sch. near Hollywood 12 Fit well
14 36- Across- designed Paris landmark ( 1989)
15 Cut down
19 Sack, so to speak 22 Legally charges 23 Magician’s skill 24 Rummage ( through) 25 TV booth alert
26 See 59- Across 27 Moolah
28 Be shy
30 Kind of column 31 George with a
.390 batting average in 1980 34 Gazillions
37 Goat’s bleat
42 Lecturer’s reading? 44 Word that rhymes with
treats, appropriately 45 Trophy
47 Shoppe description 49 Excited about
50 Some hospital supplies 51 Fictional captain whose nickname is
“Old Thunder”
53 Back in the day
54 Arctic seabird 55 Nowhere near the target, in a children’s guessing game
56 When soap operas
usually air, informally 58 Bud’s bud in old comedy 59 Winner of four World Series in this century, on scoreboards