new york times crossword

ACROSS

1 Matchmaking services?

8 Co-star of “The Office” who played Ryan Howard

15 In a classic form of diamond 16 Victor’s gloating cry

17 Rust

18 Technophobe

19 They may be fluid: Abbr. 20 Banished

22 Smidgen

23 Shepherd’s pie ingredients 25 Venture a view

26 Miss

27 Radiates

29 “No ___ can live forever”: Martin Luther King Jr.

30 Street hustler’s game

31 Many a corny pun

33 Bravado

35 Lord Tennyson’s “The Eagle,” e.g. 36 Shaker’s cry?

37 Speed of sound

41 Baker’s shortcut

45 Certain Bedouin

46 Aladdin’s simian sidekick

48 Looks

49 Defeats by a hair

50 Dumps

52 Auto parts giant

53 “The enemy of ___ is the absence of limitations”: Orson Welles 54 Vehicle used by the police to catch thieves

56 “Delta of Venus” author

57 Mob law?

59 Like many screenplays

61 “The Call of ___” (short story by H. P. Lovecraft)

62 Creamy Italian dish

63 Colorful display in a weather report 64 Places in the field DOWN

1 Slumped

2 Cream in a cobalt blue jar

3 “Once again …”

4 Trailblazed

5 Four-letter fruit pronounced in three syllables

6 “Au contraire …”

7 The point of church above all? 8 Ghostwriters lack them

9 Unit of energy

10 Like Rodin’s “The Thinker” 11 Dated

12 Rendering useless 13 Phoenician goddess of fertility 14 Snack company that’s a subsidiary of Kellogg’s 21 Toppartofaface

24 Capital of Newfoundland and Labrador

26 Reduce one’s carbon footprint 28 Copycat’s comment

30 Targets 32 Comprehension

34 Ring letters

37 One referred to as “the crown” 38 “You all agree with me, yes?,” in one word

39 Modern screen test

40 Savor the praise

41 Stage holdup?

42 Had it in mind

43 Sacrilege

44 Tic-tac-toe plays

47 Smidgen

50 ___ Baron Cohen, player of Borat

51 Title woman of a Beatles song

54 Lip ___

55 Scrape

58 Published

60 Party person, for short