THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Commercial line

7 Hit 1980 musical with the song "Join the Circus"

13 Accessory for Minnie Mouse

15 Handle a chopper, say

16 Many a Falcons or Hawks fan

18 "Huddled" group in an inscription on the Statue of Liberty

19 "O.K., I get it!"

21 Jags

22 Org. with many operations

25 Part of a cable network?

27 "The Great Ziegfeld" co-star,

1936

28 Santa ___ Derby

30 Struggles

32 Sail extender

33 Thick cut

34 Station predictions, for short

37 Gathering where burping is encouraged

40 "You're killing me!"

41 Countless centuries

42 Like cinnamon trees

43 Family name of classic TV

45 Dupe

46 Bar fixture

48 Slower than vivace

50 Caesar born in

1922

51 Resident of a halfway house

53 "Star Wars" figures

55 Ones with big shoes to fill

57 Measure of people skills

61 Straightened (up)

62 Napoleon, for one

63 Exceeds the limit

64 Outback offerings DOWN 1 Nonsense song syllable

2 GPS fig.

3 Word with baron or basin

4 Neutral hue

5 Renounce

6 "Au contraire!"

7 Comic book sound effect

8 Gamer's likeness

9 Uptick

10 Things used on bridges to ease congestion

11 In ___ (gestating)

12 Difficult to sort out

14 1992 comedy based on a longrunning "S.N.L." sketch

17 "Hi-diddly-ho!" speaker on TV

20 "No issues yet"

22 Play groups

23 Two cents' worth

24 JFK, for one

26 Place for a stud

29 Hedren of Hitchcock's "The Birds"

31 Ride

35 Creator of the game Centipede

36 Church conclave

38 Veritable

39 Writer of satirical works

44 Let go

46 Certain branches

47 Wildflower of the primrose family

49 Reduces to small bits

52 Scrape, to a tot

54 Ed.'s convenience

56 Campus activist org. revived in 2006

58 Verdant setting

59 Nettle

60 Parts of pecks: Abbr.