The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Say “Yeah, I can
make it,” say
5 [Ask me what’s
wrong]
9 Pitt of “The
Big Short”
13 Scannable symbols on store items, for short 14 2017 Best Play
winner
15 Mark’s
replacement
16 Will Smith’s co-star in 1995’s “Bad Boys”
19 Some airport
times: Abbr.
20 Like most
clown wigs
21 Last word of
a fairy tale
22 Hon,
modern-style
23 Part of a
phone plan
24 Two-legged
stands
25 Tantrum
26 Madrid’s country, on Olympic scoreboards
27 ___ fides
28 Like the Nikkei and Hang Seng indexes
30 It uses clicks in
lieu of paddles
32 Decorates with some rolls, for short
35 There are two, as the expression goes, in each of 16- and 55-Across 36 Part of a golf cup 37 There’s one, as the expression goes, in 5- and 27-Down
39 “The Matrix” hero 40 ___ Xtra (soda)
41 Traffic cone
42 Sports category
prefix
44 “Help me, ___Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope” 46 Source of
Manchego cheese 47 Cafe 50 Band whose name sounds like a vegetable 51 Fish ladder site 52 Remove ID from, as a Facebook picture 53 Look stunned 54 Lots of 55 Physicist who won a 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom 58 Nursery item 59 One way to stand 60 First word of
a fairy tale 61 Stripe 62 Half of a two-volume directory 63 Collection of highlights or bloopers
DOWN
1 Popular ice cream
flavor
2 Little extra
poundage
3 Betamaxes, e.g.
4 S.F. winter
clock setting
5 Line of Japanese
smartphones
6 Where one might
be marooned
7 Content
8 Question asked in
befuddlement
9 Part of a
Whopper
10 Approach
quickly
11 Like a rainbow 12 Movers and
shakers
17 13th, maybe
18 It often occurs following a car wash, seemingly 19 Classic Britcom 23 Hamiltons
24 “Whew!”
27 Tropical
houseplant
29 Animal lovers’
program
31 Chest protector 33 Performance that requires a lot of upper body strength 34 Figure whose wings melt in the sun
37 Prepare to pin the tail on the donkey, say 38 Decepticons, in the Transformers universe
40 Golf ___
43 Frustrated
exclamation
45 Be in
development
47 Unsuccessful draft picks, in sports lingo
48 Opening
49 Have the
tiller
50 “The Two Fridas”
artist
53 Little
annoyance
54 “You can’t
have that!”
56 Second letter
before iota
57 Two-nation
peninsula: Abbr.