NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Part of a constellation
5 Facing the pitcher
10 Top Olympic medal
14 Parasitic insects that suck 15 Digestive aid brand
16 Song for a diva
17 Prefix with knock or lock 18 Position sought every six years 20 Close guy friend
22 In his Webby Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance speech (which is limited to five words), he said “Please don’t recount this vote”
23 What unagi is, at a sushi bar
24 2014 film in which David Oyelowo played Martin Luther King Jr.
26 Home theater feature, maybe
31 “To thine ___ self be true” 32 Chinese-born architect who won a 43-Across
33 Well-behaved
35 Odometer button 37 Vietnamese New Year
38 Row of bushes
39 What to leave a phone message after 40 Got out of bed
42 Home heating option
43 Annual award for architects
47 Coat of paint
48 Chaney of silent films
49 Far ___ (a long distance away) 52 Safest course of action
56 Pop-up store opportunity for bargain hunters
59 Vogue competitor
60 Savings plans for old age, in brief
61 :
62 Cape Canaveral org.
63 Erotic
64 Newspaper pieces collected in the book “The Last Word”
65 “How do you like ___ apples?”
DOWN
1 Close with a bang
2 Funny Fey
3 Intermission preceder 4 Director Rob
5 Son of David in the Old Testament 6 One starting college, typically 7 Prohibit
8 Santa ___ winds
9 Wrecks beyond repair 10 Dashboard dial that goes from “E” to “F”
11 Cookie since 1912 12 Polygraph flunker
13 See socially
19 Red Muppet on “Sesame Street” 21 Kind of badge for a scout
24 One expressing contempt 25 Newspaper worker
26 Clean with a broom
27 Al ___, four-time Indianapolis 500 winner
28 Slow on the ___
29 Product for one pulling an all-nighter 30 Motherless calf
31 Heavenly sphere
34 Dover’s state: Abbr.
36 Cause of seizures
38 Long lunches? 41 Lymphocyte-producing organs 44 Like most centers in basketball 45 Louisiana music typically featuring an accordion
46 Purpose
49 Thrift shop caveat
50 Taxi charge
51 Big-screen film format 52 Rorschach image 53 Lackluster
54 “If all ___ fails …”
55 Sports squad
57 Have a bawl
58 Ring master?