The new york times crossword

ACROSS

1 French fashion

monogram 4 Completely lose it, with “out”

9 Did the backstroke, say

13 Broke a fast 14 Boxing weight with a limit of 118 pounds 16 Trifling 17 Handing responsibility to someone else

20 Folk singer

Guthrie 21 Soothing skin

balm

22 Major accomplishment in baseball or horse racing 26 Sound of a diaphragm spasm 28 Adamant

affirmation 29 Moe, Larry or

Curly

31 More’s

opposite

33 “I think …,” to

texters

34 One way to deal with a pain in the neck 40 Air-conditioner measures, for short

41 Actor Jared 42 Conan of latenight TV 45 Kansas City baseball team

49 “This little

piggy”

50 Two interacting communities in the home of a college 54 “There’s another good reason!” 56 Historical

periods

57 New York City landmark suggested by the ends of 17-, 22-, 34and 50-Across 61 Hawaii’s ___

Coast

62 One of two on

a shirt 63 Suffix with

Egypt or

Paris 64 Online source of film facts

65 Threw a party

for

66 And so on:

Abbr.

DOWN

1 Threaten, as a little dog might

Van Gogh’s “The ___ Night”

3 Comic actress Jones, formerly of 32-Down

4 Law enforcement org. 5 Campaigned

for office 6 London’s land:

Abbr.

7 Rose petal

fragrance 8 Mexican artist

Frida

9 Urban air

pollution 10 Comment while pulling into the driveway 11 Intense illumination, as in old movie projectors 12 “That doesn’t do much for

me”

15 Apes cats? 18 Soaks (up) 19 Protection for an outdoor reception 23 Woman’s name that looks like Roman numerals for

51+51

24 River of central

Germany 25 Mozart’s “___

Fan Tutte” 27 Business bigwig, for short 2

By Bruce Haight

30 Product of Shell or ExxonMobil 32 NBC comedy show, in brief 34 When it comes down to it 35 Steadiness, as in

leadership 36 Trident-shaped

Greek letter 37 Trillion:

Prefix

38 Lots and

lots

39 Woody ___, bartender on “Cheers” 40 Program that spits out spam 43 Caesar’s rebuke to Brutus 44 Memos 46 James ___, author who won a posthumous Pulitzer 47 Country singer

Morgan

48 Try to hit, as a

gnat 51 Virginia who wrote “Mrs. Dalloway” 52 Free, as a bank account 53 “Bye Bye Bye”

boy band 55 Open ___ (prepare to pay later) 57 Hit the slopes 58 Permit

59 “Now ___ seen everything!” 60 One of three things tried by Goldilocks