New YOrk TimeS crOSSwOrD

ACROSS

1 Fellows

6 Mystic in a turban 11 Fixer at a horse race? 14 Leader in a turban 15 Less risqué 16 “Black-___”

(ABC sitcom) 17 Alternative to National or Enterprise

18 Luxury handbag maker 19 Magpie relative 20 “Explore Alaska!

It’s ___!”

23 Sack

24 A fleur-de-lis is a stylized one 25 Wine server 28 Kuala Lumpur’s home 32 Like

33 “Writers and photographers will find Michigan a great place for ___!” 35 Shipped

37 Drawn straw, say 38 Within: Prefix

39 “Blow into

Maine on ___!” 44 ___-X

45 Breastbones

46 In a mischievous

manner

48 Hoot

49 Kind of fixation 50 “I was afraid to ski, but in New Hampshire I ___!”

56 John

57 Belted one out of this world? 58 Implied

59 It goes before beauty, in a saying

60 Pola ___ of the silents 61 Other side

62 Each

63 Red-jacketed cheeses 64 Southend-on-Sea’s county

DOWN

1 Finally hit the books 2 Xbox space-war franchise

3 Nearly closed 4 Actress Anderson 5 Launched, as a missile 6 Green party honoree, briefly?

7 Put on guard

8 Key with three sharps: Abbr. 9 Section of the brain 10 Citizen of a theocratic republic 11 Fijian-born golf Hall-of-Famer 12 Isaac’s firstborn 13 Possessive in the Ten Commandments 21 Gardener, often 22 “Family Ties” mom 25 Parts of barrios 26 Northern archipelago dweller

27 Luxury S.U.V. import 28 Alley sounds 29 Harmonizers with

soprani and bassi 30 What drones collect 31 What waiting for

overdue results can be 34 Ancient civilization

around Susa 36 Shroud of ___

40 Treat with one’s

choice of syrup 41 Taught privately

42 ___ a one

43 Conscript

47 What a janitor does 49 Some upscale

chain hotels 50 Protection for a shark diver 51 Baltic city where Baryshnikov was born 52 Housing that’s often empty in the summer 53 The best, in slang 54 Hoarfrost

55 River to Hades

56 Baby sitter?