The New York Times Crossword

No. 0913

ACROSS

1 Part of many an amusement park 7 “Curious …” 15 B.Y.U. athlete 16 Title for Judge Judy 17 Tweetstorm, e.g. 18 With finesse 19 ___ of Solomon (part of the Apocrypha) 20 Playbill section, informally 22 Norman Vincent ___, bestselling author of “The Power of Positive Thinking” 23 Hybrid Starbucks product 26 Course number 27 Actress Gadot 28 “If you have to ___ …” 29 Chuckleheads 31 Behaved creepily, in a way 33 Auto industry pioneer Michelin 34 News ___ 35 It’s not good if it’s purple 37 Dict., gaz. and others 41 Volume not bought at a mall 43 Perspective 44 Tony with an Emmy 47 Substance whose primary use earned its discoverer the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology — but is now banned 49 Heat on the street 50 Kind of rock 51 French protesters beginning in 2018 54 Caterpillar, for one 56 Like koalas and pandas 57 Wood strip 58 Major second, e.g. 60 Fashion designer Pucci 62 Al Bundy portrayer on “Married … With Children” 63 Kitsch, e.g. 64 Birds with showy rear plumage 65 Many early settlers of the U.S. frontier

DOWN

1 Natural disaster, legally 2 Doping hazard 3 Magic bullets 4 Breathless 5 #1 ___ (mug inscription) 6 Darkness personified 7 Teen drama set in SoCal 8 Symbols meant to ward off evil 9 Artist who created “chance collages” 10 Target demographic of many social programs 11 Cross 12 Recorded, in a way 13 Word with store or sign 14 Laundromat equipment 21 “Ugh!” 24 Digs 25 Part of a network 30 European capital 32 Scraped (out) 33 Copacetic 35 Trolley car feature 36 Hear “here!” here 38 Picnic dish 39 What a fork in the road might lead to? 40 What are still attempts to score? 42 Where Gap and Google are headquartered 43 4x4, e.g. 44 “Phew!” elicitor 45 Spock’s mother 46 Big name in virus fighting 47 Equivalent of “x” 48 Nerds 52 Puts to sleep 53 Slur over 55 Part of a volcano 59 Edward of the Edwardian Era 61 Big mouth