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 sign-off
DOWN
1 Hunky-dory
2 Prefix with cycle
3 E-ZPass 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