The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across 1 Mesh (with) 5 Apply, as plaster 9 Rapper Nicki ___ 14 Word before collar, jacket or College 15 Actress Kendrick or Paquin 16 Black Sea port, to natives 17 Contemporary of Booker T. Washington 19 Touched in the head 20 Make stand out, as letters on stationery 21 “___ magnifique!” 23 Zilch 24 French wine valley 25 “Nonsense!” 26 Achy 27 Indy-toCleveland direction 28 Best-selling author who invented multiple languages 30 Hold back 33 Oddball 34 Molten tar, e.g. 35 Lift up the ski slopes
36 Like Splenda vis-à-vis sugar 39 Professionals who put on coats for work 43 Classic toy store founder 45 Remote button: Abbr. 46 Symbol of power 47 Olympian Apolo Anton ___
48 Shoe material 50 Brian who coined the term “ambient music”
51 Dog unlikely to have a solid coat 52 Braid, e.g. 53 Dog breed at Buckingham Palace 55 Indication of more to come … or what 17-, 28- and 43-Across all contain
57 City in northern Italy 58 Novelist Seton 59 Not imaginary 60 Mohawk or mullet 61 Swarm (with) 62 Bohemian
Down
1 One visited by a prospective groom
2 Top of a to-do list 3 British officers 4 Setting in “Return of the Jedi” 5 Little amounts of cream 6 Year in Spain 7 Creature on Scotland’s coat of arms 8 Least dignified 9 Lose one’s feathers 10 Reply at the altar 11 Modern dark film genre 12 Had high hopes 13 “The Tonight Show” host before and after Conan O’Brien 18 Application 22 Hollywood and such 25 Cheese similar to Camembert 26 School uniform wear, maybe 28 Hybrid music genre with AfricanAmerican roots
29 Not fatty 31 “Salud!” or “Skoal!” 32 College recruitment org.
35 Root vegetable sometimes made into chips 36 “Special” things in sci-fi films 37 Reason for a doubleheader 38 “My sincere apologies” 39 Company with an annual “Color of the Year” award 40 Kindle, for one 41 Revolutionary War foe 42 Dolce 44 Informal question of identification 48 ___-Caps (candy)
49 The “U” of UHF 51 Function associated with oscillation 52 Cheese similar to Gouda 54 ___ Grissom, longtime “CSI” character 56 Actor Sheridan of “Ready Player One”