NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Segment of the Constitution that starts “We the People”
9 Youtube postings
15 Goes wild
16 ___ Marcos, longtime first lady of the Philippines
17 2018 biopic about 54-Across
19 “Yep, I took care of it!”
20 Early Beatle Sutcliffe
21 Some hoppy drafts, for short 22 Brooklyn neighborhood where 54-Across grew up
27 About 5 ml
28 Saves to discuss later
31 1952 Winter Olympics host
32 Prefix with economics 33 Subatomic particle named for an Indian physicist 34 Tongue-in-cheek nickname for 54-Across 39 Arch competitor
40 Terse turndown to an invitation 41 Start of the Arabic alphabet
42 Birch relatives
44 Newspaper, disparagingly
47 Law school where 54-Across finished at the top of the class 49 Emmy-winning Ward
50 Inquire
51 Burst
54 Subject of this puzzle, who once said “Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you”
59 Air carrier based in Seoul
60 Sweet liqueur
61 What to do “and weep,” in an expression 62 King or queen
DOWN
1 Oktoberfest toast 2 Prologues
3 Snare
4 Furnace residue 5 Talking horse of old TV
6 Israel’s Netanyahu, familiarly 7 Whites or darks for laundry, say 8 Many “Men in Black” characters, informally
9 Scenic views
10 “You all can keep playing” 11 Assuredly, in slang
12 Golfer nicknamed “The Big Easy” 13 A famous one by Percy Bysshe Shelley begins “Hail to thee, blithe spirit!” 14 “Wailing” instrument
18 Key
22 ___ Keys
23 Help by speaking well of 24 Geographical inits. until 1991
25 Pig
26 ___ Kong
28 Level or lathe
29 Not sit idly by
30 Bit of dust jacket info
32 Reason for an apology, maybe 33 Places dogs go at cookouts 34 Gillette brand name
35 Biggest city on the island of Hawaii 36 Satanic
37 Word repeated in “___ or no ___?” 38 It makes stroke after stroke
42 Sting that was the inspiration for the 2013 film “American Hustle”
43 What a thumbs-up icon might represent 44 Standing
45 Warnings
46 River to the Bay of Bengal 48 Northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail
49 Clearheaded
51 ___ colada
52 Words after get or sleep
53 [Over here!]
54 Holder of jelly beans in a guessing contest
55 Take advantage of
56 Singer with the 2016 #1 hit “Cheap Thrills”
57 Bit
58 Group of whales