The new york times crossword

ACROSS

1 Word with

straw or exit 5 Kept in the

loop, in a way 9 Org. originally founded to protect carriage horses 13 Oregon-based shoe company 14 Ring light? 15 Broken up 16 Atingle,

maybe 17 Gaelic

language 18 The hate in

hate mail 19 Name in price

lists?

20 Larson who won Best Actress for 2015’s “Room” 21 ___ Heights 22 Instruct for a

new job, say 24 Unfashionable unisex hairstyle 26 Burros 27 Black-tie

affairs 29 Projection from the fashionably late

30 Short life? 32 Groove

33 Fresh talk 34 Fortunate circumstances … or a punny hint to the shaded letters 37 Some tap offerings, in brief

39 Susan of “L.A.

Law”

40 Cousin of a

cassowary 41 Like some of

the mil. 42 Actress Thompson of “Sorry to Bother You” 44 Super-super48

John who wrote “The Pelican Brief” 50 More up-anddown, as a relationship 52 Up 53 Guitarist’s

accessory 54 Surveillance

org.

55 Really hate 56 Short

meeting? 57 French breakfast item that sounds like a response to a gut punch 58 A little of this,

a little of that 59 One who may need credentials 60 Avatar of

Vishnu

61 Give up

62 A moose has a

big one 63 “Less Than Zero” writer ___ Easton Ellis

DOWN

1 Big bakery/

cafe chain 2 Seeds-to-be 3 Caps

4 Place to conduct forensics 5 French beloved 6 What sharing is, per a rhyming expression 7 Otherwise 8 Mommie deerest? 9 Something you need to do to solve crosswords 10 Universal

solutions 11 Pastries with a portmanteau name

12 Where bills get passed, for short

By Matthew Stock

15 Swears 20 Meat-andpotatoes 21 Colonel Sanders feature

23 “U R A Q-T!,”

e.g.

24 “It was all a

___”

25 Some Ph.D.

students 28 Fast-food chain with a cowboy hat in its logo 31 “Whatever you

say, hon” 33 Move

furtively 34 Showered,

as with gifts 35 Quaint response of agreement 36 “Duck ___” (classic

Warner Bros. cartoon short) 37 Gerund suffix 38 Bit of preachy

prose

42 Left base? 43 Emerges 45 Lack of musical

skill

46 Take up again 47 Oslo Accords

figure

49 Gem

51 Earthy hue 53 Philippine

currency 55 Start of a kindergarten ditty

56 Good picnic

forecast 57 56-Down, e.g.