N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Object of puppy love 6 Acid’s opposite 10 Eponymous scale inventor 14 Skating gold medalist Sonja

15 Big farm workers 16 Country whose name can also be a full sentence 17 Welcome comment at a bar #1 19 Lead-in to bank 20 “Ooh, ooh, let me look!” 21 Cornered, as during a fox hunt 22 Milky birthstone 23 Welcome comment at a bar #2 27 Actor George of TV’s “The Goldbergs” 29 Underhanded sort 30 Some univ. instructors 31 Friend of Harry in the Harry Potter books 33 The Cardinals, on scoreboards 34 “Hang on!” 35 Welcome comment at a bar #3 39 “This is not ___” (warning to kids) 40 Cleverly and ironically humorous 41 Tina Fey’s “30 Rock” role 42 ___-1701 (U.S.S. Enterprise registry) 43 Oftenforbidden things to worship 45 Caesar’s first stabber 49 With 57-Across, welcome comment at a bar #4 52 Sounds of support 53 Cousins of mandolins 54 Pestering people 56 Words before “smoke” or “the air” 57 See 49-Across 60 Dirt ball 61 One coming to homecoming, maybe 62 “The Burning Giraffe” and “The Persistence of Memory” 63 Boy dolls 64 “Beg pardon!” 65 They might make lids difficult to close

DOWN

1 Women’s clothing chain since 1983 2 Do again, as a radio bit 3 Let off the hook? 4 Likewise 5 Casual greetings 6 Termites and drills 7 Pink-slip 8 Maritime milieu 9 Tolkien tree being 10 Tiny opening? 11 Avenue between Reading Railroad and Chance 12 Poison-pen letters 13 Most sarcastic 18 ___ Talks 21 “Shame!” 24 Fashionable 25 Home of The Hague: Abbr. 26 Superman’s birth name 28 Wood in a fireplace 32 Change of locks? 34 Pointed headgear often pictured with stars and moons 35 Tabloid twosome 36 Manner of speaking 37 1982 film inspired by Pong

38 Big lighter brand 39 “Were you successful at all?” 43 Some digital chats, informally 44 Holy councils 46 How Solomon spoke 47 French sweetheart 48 Make a judgment of 50 Rips to pieces 51 The Great Lakes’ ___ Locks

55 3:2 or 10:1, e.g. 57 Independent charity, for short 58 Spanish gold 59 Clothing chain since 1969