The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Junior mint?

10 Vets’ counterparts

15 1990 film that Roger Ebert called “so implausible that it makes it hard for us to really care about the plight of the kid” 16 Kind of acid found in “good” fats 17 High point of a trip to California? 18 “Same”

19 No-win situation

20 Gusto

21 Handled

22 Org. for Triple H and The Ultimate

Warrior

24 Hazmat monitor

26 Flashy hoops highlight, for short 27 Big sister?

32 How some deli meats are served 33 Chi-town fixture since 1847, with

“the”

34 U.S. prez commemorated with a stone tablet in London’s Westminster Abbey

35 Little rascal

37 Site for many of Jesus’

miracles

40 Nigerian people in “Things Fall

Apart”

41 Space scrap?

43 Eponym for U.S. track and field’s

highest award

44 Things that can really make

someone pop?

47 Rank for TV’s Klinger and Radar:

Abbr.

48 Enters, in a way

49 Slip

50 “Barry ___” (1975 Kubrick

drama)

52 Info in a visitor’s text, maybe 54 Feature of an empty room,

perhaps

58 Asteroids system

59 John Harvard, of Harvard

University, and others 61 Non-English “Uncle”

62 Graphic novelist who created

“Watchmen” and “V for Vendetta” 63 Teacher’s directive

64 Classic 1966 album with the tracks “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” and “Sloop John B”

DOWN

1 Cry that accompanies relief … or

a reek

2 ___ Bunny (Looney Tunes

character)

3 Some theaters

4 “I suppose it can’t hurt”

5 Feature of open-world video

games

6 Hit Broadway musical with an

exclamation point in its name 7 Formal denial

8 Charm, to King Charles

9 Itch

10 “Sorry, babe”

11 Nobelist Wiesel

12 Ineffectual sorts 13 Peer-to-peer file-sharing format 14 Exclusive

21 Queen of ___

23 In shorthand, it’s written with two

S’s and two T’s

25 Tap

27 ___ Eisley (“Star Wars”

spaceport)

28 A little taller than normal, say, as

a kiddie

29 Certain native identity

30 Heavily caffeinated, say

31 Advice lead-in

36 “The Smartest Guys in the

Room” subject

38 Major fantasy franchise, in brief 39 Suffix with govern

42 Princess “Enchanted” 45 Children’s writer Greenfield 46 Pines

47 The Hatfields and McCoys, e.g. 51 Small amount of whiskey

53 Milk source

55 “Ugh, this is unbelievable!” 56 What’s rounded up in a roundup 57 Column on the far right, maybe 59 Cover

60 A malaria-resistant mosquito is

one, for short