NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Discipline with tantric Buddhist origins

10 Ruses 15 Congresswoman who wrote “This Is What America Looks Like” 16 “I’m not a ___” (online confirmation) 17 Cramming

together, e.g. 18 Unfold

19 Mixer at a mixer 20 Celebrity gossip

source

22 “Do you, my poppet, feel infirm? / You probably contain a ___”: Ogden Nash 23 Indonesian province with a Hindu majority 25 Ultimate purpose 27 Chives feature 29 When you might hear people sing, for short 30 Relative of latex 32 Literally,

“trumpets”

33 Pile of texts? 35 They push a

motion forward 36 Ready for a back

rub, say

37 What cooks your

goose? 38 Something that’s

cracked and gross 40 Manage to stop 41 “Your point

being?”

42 20 sources

43 14-time NBA AllStar Nowitzki 44 Become more

appealing to

46 Its tongue

sticks out

48 On the job 49 Spotted, as a horse 51 Healthy slice 55 Delta connection? 57 Travel by private

jet, say

59 Informal summons 60 “Hammer” with

a bat

61 Line on a letter 62 Nasdaq’s home,

informally

DOWN

1 Noise that sounds like its last two letters 2 Part in the

middle?

3 Bad result of an

attempt at humor 4 Lived it up 5 Whichever

6 Belt out in the

mountains

7 Like some rials 8 Airport ticket info 9 “Can I go now?” 10 Lead-in to K 11 Center of Pluto? 12 Think, think, think

about

13 Rude response to

rudeness 14 Marijuana discard 21 Half-blood wizard

of fiction

24 They get harder the more you work out 26 Wigmaker’s supply 27 Stalling

28 One who’ll take

you for a ride 29 Their spines aren’t

flexible

31 Small carton size

32 “There!”

33 Big matter of concern for senior management? 34 Washington,

Jackson or Ford 36 Half of an evening outfit, informally

39 Turn in the air, say 40 Bother

45 “SNL” alum who co-starred in 2003’s “Dumb and Dumberer”

46 Most prolific author of children’s horror fiction, per Guinness

47 Makes like a

goose 48 Parentheses, e.g. 50 Organizer of a

couples getaway? 52 Instrument created by Hermes from a tortoise shell 53 Plant with fleshy

leaves

54 Warped

56 Card holder,

maybe

58 Didn’t sell