The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Given the short

end of the stick

8 Prone

11 What many Brits don’t spell “realize” with

14 500, e.g.

15 Natural energy

source

17 Designer behind the Dolly Girl perfume

18 Really stress

19 Wind sounds

20 Strong

connection?

21 Locale in “Do

the Right Thing” 24 Where the

Shannon flows 25 One may

be straight

26 Put down

29 Disconcert

32 Spirit

34 Excessively

sentimental

35 No more

36 Trim, in a way

38 Own (up)

39 Tapes, maybe

41 Impudence,

slangily

42 For the taking

43 Bacchanals

45 Flower girl,

sometimes

47 Like a control

freak

48 Classic sitcom

sign-off

52 Big appetite

55 House shower 56 H&M competitor 57 Providers of limited coverage?

59 Noodge 60 1983 song that begins “Hate New York City” 61 Only word spoken in Mel Brooks’s “Silent Movie” 62 Back again

63 “That’s no

challenge”

DOWN

1 Rogue

2 Tower of ___ (classic math puzzle)

3 Desi Jr. of the 1960s group Dino, Desi & Billy 4 His assassination

sparked W.W. I

5 Tarboosh feature 6 Coin introduced

by Louis IX

7 ___ gratia

8 Famed Indian

burial site

9 Took for a fool 10 Food processors,

informally

11 One involved in monkey business?

12 Titular Salinger

girl

13 Puma prey

16 Campaign

of flattery 20 Humorous as opposed to strange

22 Wished could

be undone

23 Key

27 Place to pray

28 Where Molson Coors is TAP

29 Feeling that everyone’s having fun without you, in modern lingo

30 More than

conjecture

31 Place of outdoor

meditation 33 Tennis’s

Petrova

37 ___ Vogue

40 Harbor seal

44 Dieter’s piece

of cake?

46 Crackpot

49 Trouble in

the night

50 Catches

in the act

51 Retract

52 Skiing great

Lindsey

53 Nondairy spread 54 Newbie

57 Jot

58 1969 Peace Prize

agcy.