The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Pattern of five shapes arranged like this puzzle’s central black squares 9 Highlands
memorials 15 Like Davy
Jones’s locker 16 Request before
a deal
17 Type face? 18 Treaty signed by Carter and Brezhnev 19 Some last a
lifetime
20 Grind
22 Hunger (for) 23 Summer Mass.
hrs.
24 ___ Yonath, 2009 Chemistry coNobelist 25 No-goodnik 26 Roman’s foe in
the Gallic Wars 28 Building
supports 30 “Veep” actress
Chlumsky 31 About to
explode, maybe 33 Do some supermarket work 35 More repulsive 37 Chemistry student’s expense 38 With 61-Across, two-time N.C.A.A. football champs of the 2010s 40 Inexperienced
with
41 Puts away 42 Alternatives
to Nikes 44 God with a chariot pulled by goats 47 Overseer of millions at work, perhaps 48 Govt. research
grant org. 49 Ending with
xylyl 50 Goblins,
old-style 52 Follow 54 Changed one’s tune, in brief?
55 One side of the Ural Mountains 57 Who definitely isn’t the real McCoy? 59 Setting for “The Great Escape” 60 Present
person
61 See 38-Across 62 One of five depicted in this puzzle
Down
1 NATO alphabet letter before Romeo 2 Needing to be
tucked in, say? 3 Disclaimer hinting at false humility 4 Brings home 5 Shout, in
Chamonix 6 SOS responder,
for short 7 Newborn
8 Site of Coleridge’s “stately pleasuredome” 9 Paper alternative to plastic 10 Political commentator Navarro 11 “___ never
work” 12 Whence a memorable emperor’s fall 13 Gadfly 14 Reaction to an unexpected joke
21 ___ City (Baghdad district) 27 Ornaments 28 Sharpen,
as a razor 29 Palindromic tennis champ of the 1990s 30 Hitting 32 Bronze: Lat. 34 Old ___ 35 Tailgate party
sight 36 French dessert of fruit encased in sweet batter 39 Theater director Trevor with three Tonys 40 Language from which “peyote” comes 43 Unfortunate
event 45 Flamingo’s support, often
46 Blush 51 Flounder
relative
52 Brain wave readers, for short 53 “Really? Is nobody on my side now?” 54 Rackets 56 Something to
shoot for 58 Morocco’s next-largest city after Casablanca