NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 ___ 500
6 Building manager, informally 10 Mimics Nicki Minaj
14 Role for Nichelle Nichols and Zoë Saldana
15 Sue at Chicago’s Field Museum, e.g. 16 Glow
17 Seminal William S. Burrows novel, 1959
19 Proof of purchase
20 Tar
21 Galaxy competitor
23 Adolph Coors or Frederick Pabst 26 Crown ___
29 “Te ___” (Spanish words of affection)
30 Big name in cosmetics 31 Corporate bigs
32 Actress ___ Dawn Chong
35 Start of a citation
36 Samurai swords
38 Car company that sponsors the World Cup
39 Before, in odes
40 Sty occupants
41 Some marsh flora 43 Spinning
45 Help to cover
46 “The fault lies here”
49 Comics title character who says “Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery” 50 Folds
53 Instead
54 Pittsburgh is its most populous city 58 Manipulative sort
59 Ring bearers
60 Special ops force
61 Super Bowl LIII winners, informally 62 Course obstacle 63 Defaults?
DOWN
1 Tanning agent
2 “Eureka!” moments
3 Quickly heat up
4 Fantasized
5 Emmy-nominated host of “Top Chef” 6 ___ double
7 Spigot site
8 Something a bodybuilder might flex, informally
9 Case opener
10 Breakfast quantity
11 Bodybuilder?
12 Trim
13 Fencing piece
18 Miss
22 Certain P.R., in two different senses 24 In an even manner
25 Remains
26 Say mockingly
27 “Do I ___!”
28 “Good to go!”
31 Rant and rave
33 Fictional Ethiopian princess 34 “Careful now”
37 Put off
42 Erased
44 Equivocates
45 Farmer’s place, in song
46 Freeze
47 Lightweight wood
48 Sudden movement
51 Muay ___ (martial art)
52 It may be fine in a stream
55 Plague
56 ___-brained
57 Intensifying suffix, in modern slang