The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Reaction to being sent to the principal’s office, say 5 Cartoon cat

8 City name in both East and West Coast states

13 After weighing both sides 16 Amazon guide? 17 Question suggesting “Beats me!” 18 Gaudiness

19 Logic game with matchsticks 20 Reach a point of diminishing returns

22 Take a shot

23 Eponym of a cathedral in Red Square

25 Cosmic law and order in Buddhism

27 It may be set in stone 28 Small colored feature of the body 30 “Ma-a-aybe”

35 Some nerve?

36 What Scarlett saved 37 “___ on!” (“Come and get it!”)

39 Elevate

40 Chilly day accessory 42 “Seriously?” 44 Smoothie starter 46 North-flowing river 47 “Mmmmmmm!”

49 ___ in (enclosed, as a porch) 53 Fire

54 Sheltered, as stock

56 Kind of cross

57 Bulletin 59 Painfully obvious

61 Fuzzy

62 Trip that no one wants to take 63 Defeated, but barely 64 Howe’er

65 Weeks off

DOWN

1 Prom wear

2 Coming through without a scratch

3 Something that might be “dropped” prematurely in a relationship, in slang 4 Vote-swaying org.

5 They usually come with bikinis

6 “Get it while it’s hot!” 7 Chem major’s exam, perhaps 8 Its blossom is the state flower of Arizona

9 Without exception 10 Recurrent musical theme 11 1-up, in gaming 12 Labyrinthine

14 Greedily consumes 15 Checked out 21 “But of course!”

24 It doesn’t go wall-to-wall 26 Fields questions, say 29 Follower of John

30 Small, informally 31 Tex-Mex dish sometimes served with southwest dressing

32 Object of some fantasy quests

33 “Of course … my bad!” 34 The lyrics of “Livin’ la Vida Loca,” e.g.

38 Weapon with an Italian name 41 Descriptive of some flakes and hair

43 “My pleasure!”

45 Kid

48 Starting time for an attack 50 Go afield

51 Two under

52 Goes mano a mano (with) 53 Spelunk

55 Angel’s opposite

58 “The Murders in the ___ Morgue”

60 Eglin or MacDill: Abbr.