NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Join forces 7 Heroin, slangily 11 Lunchbox sandwich, informally

14 Go beyond

15 Gucci of fashion 16 “We ___ Young” (2012 Song of the Year) 17 Read up on a woman, old-fashionedly?

19 One way to stand 20 Yoga position

21 Home of the Heat 22 Naval subordinate: Abbr.

23 Warrior on Mount Olympus 24 Take a chance on a work of poetry? 26 Attack from the air 28 Cousin of a cravat 29 Big name in

small planes

34 What crossword clues with question marks often are 35 Cite a chap for speeding? 38 Prepare for a struggle 40 Gives the go-ahead 41 French 38-Down 43 Stable sounds

48 Coax a lost dog to follow you? 53 Figurehead’s place 54 Camera-moving technique 55 Unlikely to defect 56 Task

57 “Hulk” director Lee 58 Check the aroma of a few beers? 60 Al Capp diminutive 61 “You ___ kiddin’!” 62 Thought, to Pascal 63 Québec place name abbr. 64 Loses rigidity 65 Messages with hashtags

DOWN

1 Autos with charging

stations

2 Get by intimidation 3 More discerning 4 Monster beheaded

by Perseus

5 180s

6 Unlawful behavior in strict Muslim countries, for short 7 Delhi wraps

8 Dagger’s partner 9 “Battlestar Galactica” commander

10 Big name in chocolates 11 Small slice of one’s workday? 12 Richard who founded Virgin Atlantic 13 Travels in high style 18 Ascap counterpart 24 Needs a bath badly 25 Place to follow the M.L.B. 27 Obscenity-monitoring org.

30 Naval burial site, maybe 31 Dirty digs

32 “Hip Hop Is Dead”

rapper

33 Ecstasy’s opposite 35 It’s right in the

Pythagorean theorem 36 Carded, for short 37 Barely manage,

with “out”

38 “Sex and the City”

quartet, e.g.

39 “No kidding!” 42 Tex-Mex dips 44 Face Time device 45 Bellyache

46 Insect that builds a papery nest 47 Three of Abba’s members, by birth 49 The Supreme Court’s

Sotomayor

50 Getting even with 51 Shooters through rapids

52 Sitcom extraterrestrial 56 Captain’s command 59 Quick on the uptake