NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 ___ alphabet

5 Dream big

11 ___-Signal

14 Mystery writer?

15 Place to hide in hide-and-seek

16 Donkey Kong, for one

17 Classic song that starts “I was working in the lab late one night” [2003, 1970] 19 Hwy.

20 Viking beverage

21 Popular New Orleans dessert

23 Start of the Depression [1987, 2004]

27 ___ vera

28 Bequeaths

29 Works of Picasso y Goya

30 Gotham inits.

31 Small wind instrument

32 Gamblers’ calculations

33 Line at the top or bottom of a website [1997, 2019]

36 Help up a slope

38 Popular depilatory

39 Busy body?

42 It was cool in the ’90s

43 Search blindly

45 Strives (to)

46 Commuter’s headache [1998, 2000]

49 1986 #1 hit for Patti Labelle and Michael Mcdonald

50 Throne material on “Game of Thrones”

51 Lovelace of early computing

52 Editing device suggested by 17-, 23-, 33and 46-Across?

57 Crossed

58 Michelle Obama or Jill Biden, informally

59 Request accompanying puppy dog eyes, maybe

60 ___ Lankan

61 Mac-versus-pc and others

62 Lead-in to sax

DOWN

1 “Full Metal Jacket” setting, in brief

2 Surprise for a statistician

3 “Funky Cold Medina” rapper

4 In the bargain bin, say

5 Tennis feat

6 Nikon D3500, e.g.

7 Certain lap dog, informally

8 Allende who wrote “City of the Beasts”

9 Goes back to square one

10 Moral code

11 Alma mater for Martha Stewart and Joan Rivers

12 Hurdles for many honor students, in brief

13 Something most babies do at around six months

18 The Rams scored none of these in the ’19 Super Bowl, and the Chiefs none in ’21

22 Ex-seniors

23 Sickly-looking

24 Mattress size

25 Big break

26 58-Across between Lou and Bess

31 Supporting

32 ___ Lady of Guadalupe

33 Often-frazzled comics character

34 Rank below adm.

35 Seating section

36 What the N.B.A.’S Supersonics became in 2008

37 Type of rice

39 Like some glasses

40 Highly respected

41 Help button

42 Some celebrity sporting events

43 Rampage

44 Dwindle

45 Birthplace of Homo sapiens

47 So-called “Godfather of the Teamsters”

48 Be bedridden, say

53 Big Apple subway inits.

54 Opposite of norte

55 Email addenda, for short

56 Vegas hotel and casino that is the longtime host of the World Series of Poker