NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Go bad

4 ___ Coeur, Mo. 9 Hayes in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

14 “Well, looky here!” 15 Fuel carrier at sea 16 ___ toast

17 Betting game in which you could lose your shirt 19 One who’s constantly talking smack

20 Brooklyn basketball

team

21 Shaped like grapes 23 Time away from

the grind, for short 24 Film cast and crew

celebration 27 Insolent manner 30 Secondary schools

in France 31 Approach

33 Aid in making a

pompadour 34 Almost twins … as suggested by this puzzle’s circled squares?

39 [head slap] 40 Smooth, in music 41 Like some writing of

Anaïs Nin

45 Adkins, for Adele 49 Tickets for shorter lines, good seats, backstage access, etc.

51 Thespian

52 What might be

taken to go? 53 The speed of sound 55 Lofty abode 57 Some old mobile

devices

59 A.F.C. East athlete,

for short

60 Disney princess with “a dreamy faroff look, and her nose stuck in a book”

61 One arguing in

court: Abbr. 62 Bookish sorts 63 Twiddled one’s

thumbs

64 Sch. with a campus

in Shreveport

DOWN

1 Platforms for speakers

2 Words following “Which thing?” 3 Sign in an apartment window 4 Signature feature of a Duracell battery 5 Total hoot 6 Fraternal group with a mammalian name

7 Peace sign shape 8 Slip-up

9 “OK by me” 10 Largest airport in the Pacific Northwest

11 Ziggy Stardust vis

à-vis David Bowie 12 Midge Maisel’s father on “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” 13 Garage occupant 18 Dye for denim 22 Kilmer of “Top Gun” 24 Sneaky sorts 25 Peeved, with “off” 26 Fashion inits. 28 French article 29 “What’s the big

___?”

32 Latvia’s capital 34 Doughnut shapes,

mathematically 35 Burger King offering 36 “Old Town Road”

rapper Lil ___ X 37 Stuck on 38 Lightweight

rainwear

39 Patel of “Slumdog

Millionaire” 42 Moved on the

tarmac

43 Places to be

marooned 44 Farm-share

program, for short 46 Lacking a key, in

music

47 “Woman With a Parasol” and “Impression, Sunrise”

48 1974 pop hit with

Spanish lyrics 50 Like Robert Mueller

beginning in 2013 53 Move around, with

“about”

54 First company to be

valued at $1 trillion 55 Raggedy ___ 56 Word before

dropper or popper 58 Spearheaded