The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Enlivens 7 Salutes with flutes? 13 Tried really hard 14 “Leading us off ...” 15 W.N.B.A. All-Star Alyssa 16 Crushed-ice dessert with a re duplicative name 17 “___ been wondering ...” 18 Suffix for a long fund-raiser 20 La Brea substance 21 Three-___ sloth 22 Study of insects, for short 24 Item that might be left on a hotel pillow 25 One-named “Queen of All Media” 27 Counterpart of sow 28 Scores 100 on 29 Its capital is Tripoli 30 Shellfish that may be served cooked or raw 32 Curd-based drink 33 Aviate 34 Rosters 38 Black-and-white breakfast cereal 40 Language in which “hello” is “kia ora” 41 “___ está usted?” 44 Black-and-white whale 45 “No idea” gesture 46 Country that borders Yemen 47 “The Color Purple” character ___ Avery 48 Hartford’s state: Abbr. 49 Went unused 50 “Yeah, that didn’t escape my notice” 52 Curved path 53 “Ow!” 57 Pre-cable TV appurtenance 60 Establishment that serves “purr”-over coffee? 61 “Living Single” creator ___ Lee Bowser 62 Not being manually operated 63 Agree to something

DOWN

1 Winter clock setting in Calif. 2 Addis Ababa’s land 3 “A closed mouth doesn’t get fed” and others 4 Not too long from now 5 Campus setting in the story collection “My Monticello,” in brief 6 Nuisance7 Up to, informally 8 Spanish for “gold” 9 ___ Wednesday 10 Cause of some cling 11 New Orleans university 12 Cricket and squash, for two 14 Giant narrative that may be about giants (and elves as well) 16 Tree whose pods contain a sweet-tasting pulp 19 Luke Cage’s title in his first comics appearance 21 Turnpike payment 23 Choose24 Chanteuse with charttopping hits found at the tops of 4-, 14-, 16- and 19Down26 Eyebrows and beards 31 Stately trees 35 Delta Sigma Theta, for one 36 Shorten 37 Exit or Yield 39 Dawn goddess 41 Rival of Sam’s Club 42 Resident of Nebraska’s largest city 43 Hakuna ___ (Swahili phrase meaning “no problems”) 51 Methods 54 Fort Worth sch. whose mascot is SuperFrog 55 All ___ and no cattle 56 Mysterious sky sighting 58 “Deliver Us From ___” (2003 rom-com) 59 Plural article in French