The New York Times Crossword

By Kunal Nabar

ACROSS

1 Like some knowledge and commitments

6 Horror-struck

12 Playbills?

14 Refresher course?

15 State flower of

Utah

16 Singer/songwriter

Paul

17 Reinvented self

18 “Je suis à _ _ _”

(“I’m all yours”)

19 Big name in family

music

21 Political convention attendees: Abbr.

22 Theme park originally conceived as a planned community

24 Unmoving

26 Ingredient in some

flour

27 Credit cards

29 Quick impression,

as of a person

31 One who’s got the

goods?

32 Features of some

Japanese gardens

36 Divide

appropriately

38 Roughly one-third of the earth’s surface

39 It might be sold by

the yard

40 Displayed dislike,

in a way 42 Michelle _ _ _

West of the LPGA

43 Clothes line

45 Push

46 Play _ _ _ (sit in

with the band)

47 Drones, e.g.

49 Mine

50 Betamaxes, e.g.

51 Some stage

whispers

53 Narrative device used in “Groundhog Day”

56 Frankincense and myrrh, but not gold

57 Overly slick

58 Galleon’s

company

59 Mountain path

60 Letters seen all around New York City

DOWN

1 Game played on yaks in Mongolia and Pakistan

2 Coded material

3 Scintillas

4 Opportunity for an

amateur, maybe

5 Apt cry of encouragement for a geologist?

6 “___, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss”: Keats

7 Mulder on “The X-files,” e.g., informally

8 Sharp now

9 What a key

provides

Edited by Will Shortz No. 0623

10 Fitting

11 Actor Gibson of the “Fast & Furious” franchise

12 Genre for Gabriel García Márquez and Haruki Murakami

13 Spanish American

cowboy

14 Ingratiating sort

15 Dance

components

19 Parliament : owls

:: raft : ___

20 Top present during the holiday season?

23 City formerly known as Christiania

25 Like many gift packages and old messages

28 Many a

Zoroastrian

30 Parties

32 Apt cry of encouragement for a pilot?

33 Anchor’s place

34 Dehydrates

35 Editorial

overruling

37 100 is a high one,

informally

39 Capital of Eritrea

41 Target of a

biometric scanner

44 Oil and film, for

two

46 Grp. defending

trans rights

48 Button often indicated by a forward arrow

50 Participants in a November parade, informally

52 Govt. org. since

1946

54 Roast figures

55 Pro bono promo