NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Tea with tapioca pearls

5 Tear to bits 10 Syringe amts. 13 Anthony Hopkins’s role in “Thor” 14 France’s longest river

15 Something to draw names out of 16 Flaw in an argument 19 Inventor David Aguilar built a fully functional prosthetic one from Legos

20 “My treat!”

21 ___ Sea, body of water between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan 22 “August: ___ County” (Pulitzer-winning play)

24 Walk quietly

26 Void

28 On the briny 29 Weightlifting item for a biceps routine

33 AOL competitor 34 Messy living area

37 French friend

38 “I love you,” in Spanish

40 Toad’s kid-lit pal 41 Many a beverage ending in “-ade” 45 Lose rigidity 48 Trophy or medal 49 Abbr. at the end of a list of authors

50 Marbled loaves 51 Queen’s pawn? 54 Spring-loaded office device ... or a collective hint to 16-, 26-, 34- and 41-Across

58 Cry that’s a homophone (and anagram) of 55-Down

59 Meat skewer 60 Sign of past

stitches, perhaps 61 Simon & Garfunkel’s “___ Robinson” 62 Georgia school said to be one of the “Southern Ivies” 63 Fellow bringing a

dozen roses, maybe

DOWN

1 Cattle-catching weapon

2 Strong smell 3 Eagerly awaited occasion

4 What “their” is spelled with, but not “there” or “they’re”

5 Like “b-boy” or “my b”

6 “A Study in Scarlet” detective 7 Widespread 8 Notable time period 9 Director Guillermo ___ Toro

10 Reach the Billboard Hot 100, e.g. 11 Chocolate source 12 Something that editors and clothing designers are concerned with 17 Cold weather wear 18 Folded part of a

17-Down

23 Place for a wax 24 Like a tightrope,

ideally

25 Flo Rida hit with the lyric “Champagne buckets still got two tears in it” 26 Standard Oil

offshoot 27 Windows runners 28 Comedian Sedaris 30 Where to swing your partner ‘round and ‘round

31 Bad way to run 32 Equip for sailing 34 Eggplant ___ (Italian

dish, familiarly) 35 “It’s my turn!” 36 “There but for the

grace of God ___” 39 Use Turbotax, e.g. 40 Silver ___ (tree of

the Alps)

42 Swift to fill a

concert hall? 43 Dorky

44 Scratchy voice

quality

45 “Don’t let those

people escape!” 46 Catchall survey

option

47 Birds that sing extravagant melodies

50 Prefix meaning

“automated” 52 Final Four org.

53 No ___ Traffic 55 Barely manage, with

“out”

56 Theatrical sort 57 Kind of port seen at

airport kiosks