The new york times 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 N.B.A. All-Star 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? Travel by

private jet, say Informal

summons “Hammer”

with a bat

Line on a letter Nasdaq’s home, informally 57 59 60

61 62

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

By David Steinberg

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 “S.N.L.” 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 f rom a tortoise shell

53 Plant with fleshy leaves 54 Warped 56 Card holder,

maybe 58 Didn’t sell