The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Means of supervision?
9 Co-winner of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize
15 Kisses and hugs
16 “I can ___”
17 What can strike up a tune?
19 Tiny bit of concern
20 Saint associated with the Russian alphabet
21 ___ jure (by the law itself: Lat.)
24 Discover fortuitously
26 Rail construction
29 “Buzz off!”
30 Florida city in the middle of “horse country”
31 Soft shade
32 Pioneer in instant messaging
33 Fire (up)
34 Watch from the shadows, say
35 Industrial support
37 Easy mark
39 As it happens
40 Critical
41 Silent ___
42 Small grouse
43 Refreshers
44 Unlike filibusters
47 Shelter from a storm, perhaps
48 Negotiation site that led to the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize
49 Appropriate
50 Draft teammates?
51 Mythological lyrist
53 Fictional narrator whose first name is a fruit
55 Epitome
61 Wireless network necessity
62 Toon with a brother named Castor
63 Oxford pad, e.g.
64 Locale in SW France
DOWN
1 Beyond steamy
2 Boy’s name that means “king”
3 Rose by another name?
4 “Anybody there?!”
5 Fair
6 Accompaniment for a bottle of rum
7 Beautiful and rare
8 Chaz, to Cher
9 ___ Game, annual event on the second Saturday of December
10 Raise
11 Everything considered
12 Occasion for Druids to gather at Stonehenge
13 Absorbed
14 Winter festival
18 Grandes ___, part of France’s higher education system
21 Reiterated refusal
22 Admissions to a counselor
23 Network of nerves in the abdomen
25 Rarer than rare
27 Keep on keeping on
28 Stop for a bit
36 Employ for lack of better options
37 Place to pick up litter?
38 Comeback that sounds like a “Star Wars” character
45 Without incident
46 Alchemist’s offering
47 Flimflammers
52 His brother was no keeper
54 One end of the narthex
55 Prefix with -assic
56 Countless lifetimes
57 Keystone figure
58 Who wrote “All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream”
59 Pipe cleaner
60 High rails