The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Cannery row?
5 Bad, slangily
9 Diamond club
12 Inter ___
13 Supermodel Hadid
14 Japanese noodle
15 “Everlasting” candy from Willy Wonka
17 Intl. financial giant headquartered in London
18 Take another take
19 Schoolyard retort
21 Some reactions to puppies and babies
22 Teeny-tiny futuristic machines
24 Really out there, as humor
27 What follows hump day: Abbr.
29 Alternative to Sure or Secret
30 Top Olympian
31 How some coincidences occur
33 For
36 Singer Carly ___ Jepsen
37 Like some fake nails
38 Good wood for whiskey barrels
39 Costly Super Bowl purchases
40 Some parts of archipelagoes
41 Sports org. associated with the Evian Championship
42 Bygone M&M color
44 The “E” of Q.E.D.
45 “My word!”
46 Tale of woe
49 Michael Jackson’s first
#1 hit (about a rat!)
51 “Take only ___, leave only footprints” (nature slogan)
52 Spend a night in the slammer, perhaps
56 2019 #1 album for Tyler, the Creator
57 2013 Best Musical Tony winner & with a hint to this puzzle’s theme
60 Lord High Executioner in “The Mikado”
61 “We have the meats” fast-food chain
62 Finds a function for
63 Readers of mss.
64 Risqué
65 Class struggle?
DOWN
1 Hockey great Jaromir
2 Balm ingredient
3 BBQ offering
4 Walks ostentatiously
5 Was lachrymose
6 Jungfrau, e.g.
7 Cavaliers, on scoreboards
8 DKNY’S Donna
9 Orchestra once conducted by John Williams
10 Man with a mission?
11 Choco ___ (ice cream treats)
13 Some vaccine shots
14 Biblical queendom
16 Emergency AAA request
20 One-named singer with the 2010 hit “Dancing on My Own”
22 Supplier of garden supplies
23 Record label for Barry Manilow and Whitney Houston
24 Cornell who founded Cornell
25 Kaput
26 Places to sign in in inns
28 Ward ___ (old political operative)
32 “Peter Pan” group
34 Indian music composition
35 “I guess so”
37 Spotted horse
41 Hard hit that doesn’t result in a base hit
43 Houston baseballer
46 Hard hit in volleyball
47 “Good heavens!”
48 Schindler of “Schindler’s List”
50 What high tides eventually do
52 Big vodka brand
53 Flower for a valentine
54 Pac-12 squad
55 “Hey & you!”
58 Kaplan of indie rock’s Yo La Tengo
59 Network for “Frasier” and “Friends”