NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Pattern of five shapes arranged like this puzzle’s central black squares

9 Highlands memorials

15 Like Davy Jones’s

locker

16 Request before a

deal

17 Type face?

18 Treaty signed by Carter and Brezhnev

19 Some last a lifetime 20 Grind

22 Hunger (for) 23 Summer Mass. hrs. 24 ___ Yonath, 2009 Chemistry co-Nobelist 25 No-goodnik 26 Roman’s foe in the

Gallic Wars 28 Building supports 30 “Veep” actress

Chlumsky

31 About to explode,

maybe

33 Do some

supermarket work 35 More repulsive 37 Chemistry student’s

expense

38 With 61-Across, two-time N.C.A.A. football champs of the 2010s 40 Inexperienced with 41 Puts away 42 Alternatives to

Nikes 44 God with a chariot

pulled by goats 47 Overseer of millions

at work, perhaps 48 Govt. research grant

org.

49 Ending with xylyl 50 Goblins, old-style 52 Follow

54 Changed one’s

tune, in brief? 55 One side of the Ural

Mountains

57 Who definitely isn’t

the real McCoy? 59 Setting for “The

Great Escape” 60 Present person 61 See 38-Across 62 One of five depicted

in this puzzle

DOWN

1 NATO alphabet letter before Romeo 2 Needing to be tucked in, say? 3 Disclaimer hinting at false humility 4 Brings home 5 Shout, in Chamonix

6 SOS responder, for short

7 Newborn

8 Site of Coleridge’s “stately pleasuredome”

9 Paper alternative to plastic

10 Political commentator Navarro

11 “___ never work” 12 Whence a memorable emperor’s fall 13 Gadfly

14 Reaction to an

unexpected joke 21 ___ City (Baghdad

district) 27 Ornaments 28 Sharpen, as a razor 29 Palindromic tennis champ of the 1990s

30 Hitting

32 Bronze: Lat.

34 Old ___

35 Tailgate party

sight

36 French dessert of fruit encased in sweet batter 39 Theater director Trevor with three Tonys

40 Language from which “peyote” comes 43 Unfortunate event 45 Flamingo’s support,

often

46 Blush

51 Flounder

relative

52 Brain wave readers,

for short

53 “Really?

Is nobody on my side now?” 54 Rackets 56 Something

to shoot for 58 Morocco’s nextlargest city after Casablanca