N.Y. Times Crossword Puzzle

Across

1 Tie one on at dinner 11 Online heads-up 15 1990s TV cartoon produced by Steven Spielberg 16 Home for the College of Wooster 17 “Cash is king” 18 Role for Ferrell on “S.N.L.” 19 Dear 20 “The ___ Bridge Disaster” (McGonagall poem) 21 Runners’ spot 22 Diamond ___ Trucks (bygone company) 23 It’s found on the toe of a boot 25 Goes for the gold? 27 Yogi’s title 28 Bolivian export 30 Stick in the mouth? 31 Subject of a Hoyle treatise 33 Portrayer of Hector in “Troy” 35 Infomercial product said to hold 12 times its weight in liquid 37 Band with a 2000 Grammy-winning hit that’s on Rolling Stone’s list of all-time “most annoying songs” 38 Ones pulling strings? 40 Old-hat 41 Text-interpreting technology used with PDFs 42 Duke 43 Halfway house? 44 Hurdles 46 Step 48 Boston landmark, with “the” 51 George Knightley’s love interest, in literature 52 Fired (up) 53 Some messages

from messengers 55 Truncates 56 Mobbed by mosquitos 58 Not class-specific 59 1999 Crowe/Pacino film nominated for seven Oscars 60 Newspaper post 61 Things happy people do

Down

1 Hip-hop’s Kendrick ___ 2 Quick snap time, in football 3 “Ding ding ding!” 4 Mr. of “Peter Pan” 5 Singer/songwriter whose name anagrams to ART OF SLY WIT 6 Med. specialist 7 Gaucho gear 8 Journalistic ideal 9 Like glop 10 Some undergrad degs. 11 Language from which “litmus” comes 12 Certain subterfuge 13 Well-calibrated 14 Savior of Little Red Riding Hood 24 Division of biology 25 Kind of nerve 26 Put through cycles, in a way 27 Boob 29 Mars or Neptune 31 Metaphor for a tedious, futile effort 32 Expresses grumpily I 34 Pottery ___ T 35 Wolfed (down) A 36 Newborn stats: L Abbr. O 39 Figure in many New Yorker A cartoons S 45 Kind of surgery S 47 Bit the dust A 48 What the rainbow flag signifies Y 49 Go wild 50 Web browsers D 52 “That’s a funny A one” D 54 First name in the International Tennis Hall of Fame 56 “And stuff” 57 Fort Myers-toTampa dir.