THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Green rock

8 Goes down a steep rock face, in a way

15 Danger for sailors

16 “Fake news!”

17 OWARD

19 Playground retort

20 Distress signal?

21 Talk up

22 Neighbor of Moldova

25 Q

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31 Bygone orchard spray

32 Worker in a garden

33 Some lumps

35 Superior floor, e.g.

37 To each accordingly

39 Combat zone

40 Concept embodying yin and yang

41 John, abroad

42 SEASO

46 Without attention to detail, say

47 Environmental concern 51 Swimmer Torres with

12 Olympic medals

52 Advances

57 I

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60 Blood drive donation

61 Simultaneousl y

62 John in the Clinton and Obama administrations

63 America’s Cup participant

DOWN

1 K-12

2 Hangout for Homer

3 Quod ___ faciendum

4 Overhaul

5 With full effort

6 Linda ___, Supergirl’s alias

7 Took the heat off of?

8 Friend of the Fonz

9 2004 Olympics site

10 Letter that appears twice in the Schrödinger equation

11 Hostilities ender

12 Nevada county or its seat

13 Place

14 On its way

18 Step on it

23 Kind of beef

24 Gas station in Canada

25 Roar

26 Like many chardonnay barrels

27 Statistician’s observation

28 Jewish holiday with costumes

29 Comment when turning down a charity appeal

30 Golden Horde member

31 Resembling

34 Published

36 So-called “Island of the Gods”

37 Expire

38 Drubbing

40 Peter and Paul

43 Breaks off a relationship

44 California forest name

45 Home planet of TV’s ALF

47 Check

48 Like early recordings

49 Like some columns

50 Sticker

53 O.T. book read during

28-Down

54 Ravel’s “Gaspard de la ___”

55 Small change

56 Suffix with trick

58 Starfleet Academy grad.

59 Spanish diminutive