NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Part of many an amusement park 7 “Curious …”

15 B.Y.U. athlete

16 Title for Judge Judy 17 Tweetstorm, e.g.

18 With finesse

19 ___ of Solomon (part of the Apocrypha)

20 Playbill section, informally

22 Norman Vincent ___, best-selling author of “The Power of Positive Thinking”

23 Hybrid Starbucks product

26 Course number

27 Actress Gadot

28 “If you have to ___ …” 29 Chuckleheads

31 Behaved creepily, in a way

33 Auto industry pioneer Michelin

34 News ___

35 It’s not good if it’s purple

37 Dict., gaz. and others

41 Volume not bought at a

mall

43 Perspective

44 Tony with an Emmy

47 Substance whose primary use earned its discoverer the

1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology — but is now banned

49 Heat on the street

50 Kind of rock

51 French protesters beginning in 2018 54 Caterpillar, for one

56 Like koalas and pandas 57 Wood strip

58 Major second, e.g. 60 Fashion designer Pucci 62 Al Bundy portrayer on “Married … With Children”

63 Kitsch, e.g.

64 Birds with showy rear plumage

65 Many early settlers of the U.S. frontier

DOWN

1 Natural disaster, legally

2 Doping hazard

3 Magic bullets 4 Breathless

5 #1 ___ (mug inscription) 6 Darkness personified 7 Teen drama set in Socal

8 Symbols meant to ward off evil

9 Artist who created “chance collages” 10 Target demographic of many social programs 11 Cross

12 Recorded, in a way 13 Word with store or sign 14 Laundromat equipment

21 “Ugh!”

24 Digs

25 Part of a network 30 European capital 32 Scraped (out) 33 Copacetic

35 Trolley car feature

36 Hear “here!” here 38 Picnic dish

39 What a fork in the road might lead to?

40 What are still attempts to score?

42 Where Gap and Google are headquartered 43 4x4, e.g.

44 “Phew!” elicitor 45 Spock’s mother

46 Big name in virus fighting

47 Equivalent of “x”

48 Nerds

52 Puts to sleep

53 Slur over

55 Part of a volcano 59 Edward of the Edwardian Era

61 Big mouth