THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Mag for docs

5 Absorbs, with “up”

9 Attire that may include covering for the feet, in brief

12 Old enough

14 Cool, in dated slang

15 Boy’s name that’s an anagram of 18-Across

16 Key for five Mozart piano concertos

18 Girl’s name that’s an anagram of 15-Across

19 Its worship is condemned in the Bible

20 The ___ things in life

21 Intentions

22 “Just act natural!”

24 Letter-shaped beam

26 Waves may convey a message in this

27 Be an agent for, informally

28 Many-time Grammy-winning cellist

33 Struck (out)

34 “The Golden Girls” actress

36 Initiation, e.g.

39 Bad, bad boss

40 Fairy queen in “Romeo and Juliet”

43 “The party can finally start!”

45 Muse featured in “Xanadu”

47 Worrisome sign around a campsite

52 Fitzgerald known as the Queen of Jazz

53 Get clean

54 Fighting words

56 Swenson of “Benson”

57 Do the opposite of shave … as suggested by the circled letters

58 Letter-shaped fastener

59 User-edited web page

60 Mom on “The Simpsons”

61 ___ milk

62 Sweeties, in modern slang 63 Angry, with “off”

DOWN

1 Event for college seniors

2 ___ de coeur (French romance)

3 Plan for shoppers

4 Longtime Sampras rival

5 Heart beater, in bridge

6 “How wonderful!,” sarcastically

7 Paul : U.S. :: ___ : Italy

8 Orch. section

9 Hypothetical body in the solar system beyond Neptune

10 “Hidden Figures” co-star Monáe

11 Inhaled, as food

13 Summer in Paris

15 Much-sought-after celeb

17 Will Smith/Tommy Lee Jones film franchise, for short

20 Big do

23 German rapid transit system

25 Ingredient in a drain declogger

29 Western flick, in old parlance

30 “That’s terrific!”

31 Bruins great Bobby

32 Underground org. in N.Y.C.

34 Drinker’s party headgear

35 Sport-___ (vehicle)

36 Sounds heard at night near a pond

37 Resolute refusal

38 Fellow you don’t want to be, in a phrase

40 It might require antiviral treatment to beat

41 Still wanted by the police

42 Got on

44 Highway: Abbr.

46 Move into or from an exit row, perhaps

48 Fancy hotel lobbies

49 Strangle

50 New Zealanders

51 Govt. org. dating from the

1930s

55 Big name in cloud computing

57 Potus #43