The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Artificially inflates 5 Sub (for)

9 “The Emancipation of ___” (6x platinum Mariah Carey album) 13 Oath locale

14 Men’s grooming aid 16 Oath locale

17 404 Not Found, e.g. 18 Shower amenity 19 Tight

20 Turner on a record 22 Subject of a scandal,

maybe

23 “Heavens to Betsy!” 27 Points

31 ___ suit

32 Smoking or procrastination, e.g.

34 Alfred who pioneered

in I.Q. testing 35 “Make it snappy!” 38 Set out on the highway?

39 Big cast?

40 Barely

41 Lose sleep (over) 42 Dirty look

44 Literary character played by Gregory Peck, Patrick Stewart and Orson Welles 48 You can bet on them 49 Help to set the scene 53 Old knockout? 57 Counter sign?

58 Per diem

59 Wretch

60 Casual phone greeting 61 Make (out)

62 Matches

63 Co-author of the 1957 memoir “The Untouchables”

DOWN

1 Standard part of preppy attire

2 An exhausted person

might be on it

3 Like a hospital gown,

maybe

4 They’re in good hands 5 Place “rocked” in a

1982 top 10 hit

6 Noble sort

7 “The Spanish Playing Cards” and “Nude With Mirror”

8 Novel filler

9 Faux alcoholic drink 10 A part of

11 French for “noon” 12 Grammy winner whose name sounds like a beverage 13 Low-___

15 Threat bearing small

arms?

21 One famous for seeing

double?

23 Cuts out 24 “I’ve ___!”

25 Poet Marianne who

won a 1952 Pulitzer 26 Sources of buzz 28 Opposite of mainstream

29 Like a bad apple,

maybe

30 Punk, e.g.

33 Hand dryers 34 Wasn’t conspicuous 36 Crystal collectors,

maybe

37 Like big fans

43 Big 12 school, familiarly

45 Do a cowboy’s job 46 Pines

47 Two whole notes,

essentially

49 Soaks (up)

50 Drop ___

51 Dustups

52 City on a lake of the

same name

54 Cat sound

55 Eugene O’Neill’s “Desire Under the ___” 56 Kvass ingredient