THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Plague, with “at” 5 Handmade sign at a stadium 10 Warrant, e.g.: Abbr. 14 Gift on el día de los enamorados 15 Eyelike designs 16 Tennis’s Nastase 17 Similar 20 Charge leader? 21 Unspecified degrees 22 Lover of Jane Porter 23 Manwho went into selfimposed exile in 2013 25 Opera ___ 26 Mother of Kourtney, Kim and Khloé 27 Houston player, for short 28 Snare 31 Rout 34 Ashcroft’s predecessor in the cabinet 35 Basket 36 One making you do your duty? 37 World Heritage Site since 2013 38 Boobs 39 Direction seeker’s query 41 “u can’t b serious!” 42 Stories of a lifetime? 43 Side with a dog 44 Budget, in adspeak 46 Draw 49 Title Inuit of film 51 See 60-Across 52 Univ. aides 53 Very close 56 Ladies’man 57 Zac of“The Lorax” 58 Repeatedly reposted item 59 Brand operated by Imperial 60 With 51-Across, early adopter of the A.D. dating method 61 Black ring material

Down

1 Box-office figure 2 Like a buzzkill 3 Something that’s brilliant 4 Sound heard a lot by new parents 5 Longtime food product with a mascot in a cowboy hat 6 NewYork’s ___ Stadium (track-and-field venue) 7 Fall bloomers 8 Stadium cry 9 Cry at aWhite House press conference 10 Atmospheric features of Mars 11 Senator who wrote“A Fighting Chance,” 2014 12 Last name in morningTV 13 Follower of four or six, but not five 18 Finish with 19 Its edible root is called an eddo 24 Finishes 25 Rounded-up figure? 27 Embellishes, with“up” 29 Russian ruler after Peter II 30 Zodiac symbol 31 Shoe designer Jimmy 32 Composition of some bricks 33 “Yay, we did it!” 34 Change in a clothing store, in a way 40 Unwelcome forecast 42 Eject 45 House alternative 46 Sitting Bull, e.g. 47 Scarlett O’Hara’s housemaid 48 Super Six maker of the 1920s 49 Torpedo part 50 Threat in“The Naked Jungle,” 1954 51 Port of Italy 54 Design deg. 55 Like some hairstyles with long bangs