NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 One’s marriage or graduation
7 Ring punch
10 Operate smoothly
13 Charm City baseballer
14 Be shown up
16 ___ City Hall, 36-Acrossdesigned building (1978)
17 Sites of some strikes
18 “The Winding Stair” poet
19 Ballerina’s hairdo
20 Omnipotent and allmerciful one, in Islam
21 Chicken ___
23 Place for an Atlas
24 With 10-Down,
36-Across-designed museum (1995)
29 Do a little stretching?
32 Under control
33 Ricotta cheese source
34 Get an ___ effort
35 Come to nothing
36 Subject of this puzzle (1917-2019)
38 Runner’s space
39 Script unit
40 Land in the ocean 41 Claymation pal of Wallace
43 It’s a big stretch
44 Portmanteau for 36-Across
46 Help for the disabled?
48 On ___ (running by itself)
49 Sicilia and Sardegna
51 Jack (up)
52 Classic opera in which every leading character dies
57 Asian capital designed by British urban planners
59 With 26-Down,
36-Across-designed Hong Kong skyscraper (1990)
60 Warty arboreal creature
61 Mystical and puzzling
62 Stick in a boat
63 Stand in (for)
64 Places
DOWN
1 Soul mate?
2 “Dies ___” (hymn)
3 River to the Colorado
4 Noodlehead
5 One who calls Nome home
6 “Thumbs up!”
7 Enroll in
8 “Talking” with one’s hands, for short
9 Bawl over
10 See 24-Across
11 Sch. near Hollywood
12 Fit well
14 36-Across-designed Paris landmark (1989)
15 Cut down
19 Sack, so to speak
22 Legally charges
23 Magician’s skill
24 Rummage (through)
25 TV booth alert
26 See 59-Across
27 Moolah
28 Be shy
30 Kind of column
31 George with a .390 batting average in 1980
34 Gazillions
37 Goat’s bleat
42 Lecturer’s reading?
44 Word that rhymes with treats, appropriately
45 Trophy
47 Shoppe description
49 Excited about
50 Some hospital supplies
51 Fictional captain whose nickname is “Old Thunder”
53 Back in the day
54 Arctic seabird
55 Nowhere near the target, in a children’s guessing game
56 When soap operas usually air, informally
58 Bud’s bud in old comedy
59 Winner of four World Series in this century, on scoreboards