NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Big affair

5 Disarray

9 Certain Mideast native 14 Range, e.g.

16 Panache

17 Painful spa treatment 18 Literally, “dwarf dog” 19 Skunk’s defense 21 Workplace inspection org.

22 Avid fan of a Stephenie Meyer young adult series

26 Company

28 Last name in punk rock 29 Halley’s comet, to William the Conqueror 30 Usually partnered conjunction

32 Closing question 34 Your, of yore 36 B-school applicant’s hurdle

37 Shakes off

39 Wine center near Turin 40 “Otherwise …”

42 Line at a dance 44 No-goodnik

45 ___ nitrate (diesel fuel additive)

47 Rude reply

48 Serengeti stampeders 50 Held high 51 Powerful person 52 Peter of “The Lion in Winter”

54 Get ready for a Mr. Universe competition, say

56 Promoting fair competition, in a way 61 Letter in the Greek or NATO alphabet 62 One who illegally

ignores orders 63 Hitherto

64 Pizza joint in “Do the Right Thing” 65 Short and sweet signoff

DOWN

1 Hunky-dory

2 Prefix with cycle

3 E-Z Pass site: Abbr. 4 Noah Webster, collegiately

5 Busing supervisors 6 Single

7 Many a digitalization 8 “American Pie,” e.g. 9 U.S. Army E-7 10 Hard to reach 11 Heraldic charge indicating supposed illegitimate birth 12 Promptly 13 It might have a cadenza

15 Off the deep end 20 Spectral quality

22 Like many

Shakespeare plays 23 “Feel good” sensations 24 “Are you kidding me?!” 25 Manual

27 Shell filling

29 Onetime Los Angeles

center

31 Pulled (in) 33 “Goodness gracious!” 35 ___ couture 38 “Finlandia” composer 41 Gravel alternative 43 Small mammals that secrete a musk used in perfumes

46 Leader mentioned in the Beatles’ “Revolution”

49 ___ force

50 Texter’s “Too funny!” 51 Closing bars

53 Service designation 55 Overly rehearsed 57 Andy’s dinosaur in “Toy

Story”

58 Not quite nada 59 Evening hour

60 End of a match, for

short