THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Informal font

10 Rock climber’s challenge

14 Out and about?

15 Break

16 Symbol created in 1958 as the logo for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

17 Ermine predator 18 It follows directions

19 Talisa Maegyr’s portrayer on “Game of Thrones”

21 It’s a long story

23 Like “Wonder Woman”

24 They’re no good

26 Doctors Without Borders, e. g., briefly

27 Open courts

29 Really clicks with a partner, say?

35 Film villain with one eye

36 Access to the slopes

38 Plot device? 39 Deep- fried ball of cornmeal

41 Goody two- shoes

43 John, overseas

44 Honey

45 “You decide”

51 High in the Andes?

54 Sarcastic political meme that started in 2009

56 Vietnam’s Dien Bien ___

57 Some “Lord of the Rings” characters

58 Cleansing ritual

60 Female name that’s the name of a female assistant backward

61 Forger’s mark?

62 Trashes

63 Color achieved during tempering

DOWN

1 Gets along

2 Word with light or rock 3 2004 movie featuring a clique called the Plastics

4 Business end?

5 Last Ptolemaic ruler, informally

6 Post masters?

7 Subject of gerontology

8 Plague

9 Match ( up)

10 Only three- time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

11 Second- oldest national currency

12 Half of a 1980s sitcom duo

13 John in space

17 Sea with no land boundaries

20 Female deer

22 “Moonlight” actor

25 2016 WNBA champs, informally

27 “That hits the spot!”

28 Greek letter that once symbolized life and resurrection 29 Pro ___

30 Skype or FaceTime, e. g.

31 Info in many a help wanted ad

32 Metaphorical prescription

33 Long division?

34 Go down

37 Mila of “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”

40 Cool air?

42 ___ plancha ( pan- fried)

44 Out of fashion

45 High- traffic commercial area 46 Bridge officer on the original Enterprise

47 Arrested

48 Pops

49 He said “I learned to be a movie critic by reading Mad magazine”

50 Dull and flat

52 2012 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, informally

53 Weird

55 “Double” or “triple” move

59 Touch