The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Parts missing from the Venus de Milo 5 Ancient Greek market 10 What hairy dogs do in the spring 14 Boyfriend 15 Toilet paper layers, e.g. 16 Architect Saarinen 17 Complain querulously 18 *Monster outsmarted by Odysseus 20 Drivers doing 90, say 22 With mouth wide open 23 Indian queen 24 Tin lizzies 26 *Rat Pack member who sang and danced 30 Parts with irises 31 Actor Morales of “La Bamba” 32 See 39-Across 35 Dawn, to Donne 36 Like clothes in the hamper 38 Servant in “Young Frankenstein” 39 With 32-Across, what the answers to the starred clues each have 40 Brief moments, briefly 41 Frighten 42 *Black face card whose face is seen in profile 45 Indy or Daytona 48 What two fives are change for 49 Cancel at Cape Canaveral 50 “Star Wars Episode IV” subtitle 54 *Comic character on a gum wrapper 57 Satanic 58 Part of a list with bullets 59 Scam 60 Swimmers’ units 61 Hawaiian goose 62 “Two mints in one” sloganeer 63 Nolo contendere, e.g.
DOWN
1 Things learned in “The Alphabet Song” 2 Harvest 3 Stallion’s mate 4 Hero who’s neither a bird nor a plane 5 Tack on 6 Steinem who cofounded Ms. magazine 7 Classic paintings 8 Spanish king 9 Biter of Cleopatra 10 Folk legend Pete 11 Blood-related 12 Blow, as a volcano 13 Amounts in a hypodermic needle 19 Pilgrim to Mecca 21 February has the fewest of them 24 Aerosol spray 25 Start of “The StarSpangled Banner” 26 Sport originally part of a Shinto ritual 27 Shakespeare’s stream 28 Parisian mother 29 Left page in a book 32 “Heavens to Betsy!” 33 Bygone times 34 “___ Tú” (1974 song) 36 Ten: Prefix 37 Highly off-putting 38 “Allow me” 40 Handled, as a task 41 Blow, as from a volcano 42 Saint known for translating the Bible into Latin 43 Spread, as people in a search party 44 The Lone Ranger’s Silver and others 45 Former Israeli P.M. Yitzhak 46 Lessen 47 Cheat 50 “When it’s ___” (answer to an old riddle) 51 Squished circle 52 Prop for Sherlock Holmes 53 Two-time Oscar-nominated actress Lanchester 55 The Colonel’s restaurant 56 “I am, you ___, he is”