The New York Times crossword puzzle

No. 0508

Across

1 Arm twister? 5 “Glengarry Glen Ross” playwright 10 Butts 14 Start to do well? 15 Its version of 37-Across was popular in the 1970s-’80s 16 Rapper/actor on “Law & Order: SVU” 17 Pro-war sort 18 Hart of “Chicago” 19 “Goodness!” 20 I.C.U. hookups 21 Encroach (on) 23 Particle created by dissolving table salt 24 They’re nuts for dessert 26 Intense 28 Fir coat? 29 “___ lighter note …” 32 Christmas light locale 33 Full-screen mode exit key 34 Rosalinde’s maid in Strauss’s “Die Fledermaus” 36 Latin “king” 37 Olympic sport since 1988 40 “___ ever!” 41 India’s smallest state 42 Less drunk 46 Ralph who played Voldemort in the Harry Potter films 50 Unidentified date 51 French novelist ___ France 52 Ones making writers write right?: Abbr. 53 MP3-sharing service of the early 2000s 55 Sydney’s state: Abbr. 56 ___-sec (wine designation) 58 Sweet cake 59 “Me? Are you kidding?!” 60 ___ Bator 61 Perfume compound 62 Knowledgeable of 63 With 65-Across, another name for 37-Across 64 Sweeties 65 See 63-Across

Down

1 Behind the times 2 Not touch 3 It may include sports and weather 4 Neighbor of La. 5 Some schoolteachers, quaintly 6 Resting on 7 Calf coverer 8 Popular Irish girl’s name 9 Supermodel Cheryl 10 Carnival host 11 Reaches, as great heights 12 “Is it live or is it …?” sloganeer 13 Jule who wrote the music for “Funny Girl” 21 It might be a blot on your record 22 Superwide shoe spec 25 Skee-Ball locales

27 An ay for an aye, e.g.? 29 Verse from an admirer 30 [Item depicted here] 31 Drink sold by the yard 34 Turned off 35 Bridge experts 38 Element before carbon on the periodic table 39 Musical insensitivity 42 Hastened 43 Nickname for Yale 44 Otto on “The Simpsons,” e.g. 45 Lie 46 More rewarding, as a paycheck 47 “Stop! You’re doing it all wrong!” 48 ___ Howard, first African American player on the Yankees (1955) 49 Tailor’s skill 54 Mlle., across the Pyrenees 57 Like Mozart’s Symphonies Nos. 15, 27 and 32 59 Bit of a bite