N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 CBS’s “___: Cyber” 4 Facet 10 Sound at a sauna 13 Many a school benefactor 14 Middle of a square, maybe 15 John 16 Hits hard + famed spokescow = some Bach compositions 18 Exceptional start? 19 “Star Wars” whistler, for short 20 Rends + word of regret = commuter’s purchase 22 Cloak + Egyptian deity = some spooks 25 C. S. Lewis land 26 “That ___ you” 27 “Law & Order” spinoff, familiarly 28 Technology inside Kindles 29 Shakespearean assents 30 Show of hands? 31 Noneditorial matter 33 & 34 50-50 chance … or a hint to answering six equations in this puzzle 35 Superior woman? 38 Rain slightly 39 Jumper line 42 Back 43 Home of Umm al-Quwain, for short 44 Something braided on a farm 45 Monotony 48 Rear + floral rings = colorful birds 50 Relief org. + stagger = soup kitchen offering 52 Back in 53 “Holy … !!!” 54 Duke’s ride + slowly = this puzzle’s theme 57 Turkoman, e.g. 58 Lines often in Latin 59 Drops out? 60 Classic roadsters 61 “Don’t rush me!” 62 Choice word

Down

1 Intelligentsia 2 Mideast V.I.P.s 3 “Whoa, whoa, whoa — go back” 4 Fool 5 Good name for an R.V. inhabitant? 6 Couples 7 Italian suffix for “small” 8 Bring up to speed 9 Palo Alto-based car company 10 NATO member since 2009 11 Dormitories and apartments 12 Winter serving in a Japanese restaurant 13 Gum arabic source 17 No longer available, as a book: Abbr. 21 Readies 23 Key chain? 24 Writer Osnos of The New Yorker 30 Pharmacy chain 31 Bye line? 32 “Silent Spring” topic, in brief 33 Spinetingling 34 Olympic Australis is the world’s largest one 35 Novel, sonata or sonnet 36 One hanging around a bar? 37 No-goodniks 38 Some temporary residences 39 Citizen of the secondoldest independent country in the New World 40 Topic of the second law of thermodynamics 41 Quark-plusantiquark particles 44 Italian smoker, for short 46 “Savoriness,” in Japanese 47 Head, in slang 49 A good one is under 3.00, in brief 51 The U.N.’s Kofi ___ Annan 55 Anonymous name in court cases 56 White House advisory grp.