NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Modern drag 9 Founding need 14 It often has a

crust on top 16 Visibly

surprised 17 Point of no

return? 18 Football Hall of

Famer Bobby 19 Captain Hook’s

alma mater 20 “Tropic Thunder” director and co-star 22 Street heaters 25 Growth theory

subj. 26 Mex. and Uru.

are in it 27 “I hate this” 28 Teen series whose title character is never seen 32 Query prompted by crying 34 Turn-of-the

season mos. 35 Collusion 36 Doesn’t lie

gracefully 39 It set sail from

Iolcus 40 Altar adjunct 41 Sole 43 Sole

component 44 End for end 45 Met works 46 One way to go

to a party 47 Small parts of

floor plans 49 Hawks’ old

haunt 52 “Such

mishegoss!” 53 Charged 58 Kind of

mentality 59 With 61Across, “Nothing new to me!” 60 They get

picked 61 See 59-Across

DOWN

1 Web crawler 2 ___ fois que (as soon as, in Arles) 3 Chard or cab alternative 4 Defenders’ assignments 5 Make some loops 6 Childish comeback 7 Item of interest? 8 Jacquet who directed “March of the Penguins” 9 Feigned incapacity 10 Even, in Évreux 11 2009 Grammy winner for “Fearless” 12 Like some sleep disruptions 13 Goats’ looks 15 1990 Best Supporting Actor winner 21 Cause of a curved flight path 22 Tex-Mex

topping 23 ___ Fort (World Heritage Site in India) 24 2009 comedy whose tagline is “Some guys just can’t handle Vegas” 25 Yupik lang. 28 Kitten’s look 29 In la-la land 30 Letters from

desperate

people 31 Kind of app 33 Old 36 What some gurus are called 37 She hailed from the planet Alderaan 38 Like a chorus

line 40 Recreation

areas: Abbr. 41 Not unless 42 1942 Preakness winner 44 Prefix with

-hedron 46 It’s seeing

things 48 Mariposa’s

close relative 49 Sandwich often given a twist 50 “Ali” director

Michael 51 Time for

Variety? 54 Old

revolutionist 55 O.T. book 56 Word after many presidents’ names 57 One taking the

lead?: Abbr.