THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Nursery rhyme vessel 5 Candy used to be seen on it 9 Like a celestial body 14 Oscar Wilde poem “By the ___” 15 Ingredient in traditional medicine 16 Uncertain 17 Start of a Confucian aphorism 20 Man’s name that’s Latin for “honey” 21 Not so great 22 Arm raiser, informally 23 Like the gang, in an old song 25 Single, e. g. 28 Accept eagerly, with “up” 29 A goner 31 Dig it 32 Work assignments 35 TV network that broadcast live from Opryland USA 36 Two- time Oscarwinning cinematographer Nykvist 37 Aphorism’s middle 40 Draftable 41 Tick off 42 Journalist Howell 43 Actor Wheaton 44 Medgar ___ College 46 Number twos, for short 47 Some galas 49 Accustoms 53 Place for family portraits 54 Together, in Toulon 55 Suffix with manager 56 Aphorism’s end 60 Beau 61 Call ___ ( stop play after service) 62 “Am ___ only one?” 63 Terminals in a computer network 64 Minuscule issues 65 Word with china or chop
Down
1 Cheese city 2 Staggering 3 Probably 4 Joke follower 5 Not being such a daredevil, say 6 Place for many a hanging 7 Brings along 8 Speed: Abbr. 9 Guinness superlative 10 “La ___ du jeu” ( 1939 Renoir film) 11 Music featured in “A Clockwork Orange” 12 “___ tu” 13 Faulty: Prefix 18 One who’s working out of pocket, informally? 19 “Elf” co- star, 2003 24 Co- creator of “The Flintstones” 25 Curse 26 Memorable 2011 hurricane 27 Sights at Occupy protests 30 More 32 Stores 33 “Pagliacci” clown 34 Turns 36 Mushroom stem 38 ___ jolie 39 Chicago’s Saint ___ University 44 Fishermen with traps 45 Browning piece 48 Hindu princess 50 Bad demonstrations 51 Prefix with - meter 52 Time out? 54 ___ fruit 56 On one’s ___ 57 When doubled, Miss Piggy’s white poodle 58 N. H. L.’ s Laperriere 59 Start of an alphabet book