NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Hit hard

5 Beats it

11 Org. with the

Wizards and

Warriors

14 Prefix meaning

“wine”

15 Pub spigot

16 Path of a blooper

17 Rating for many a sitcom

18 Ahab’s inspiration?

19 Give a whuppin’

20 *Acts phony

22 Chopin piece

24 Sweat units

25 Beehive contents

26 Carl who wrote

“Contact”

29 “WTF With Marc

Maron,” for one

32 Industry kingpin

33 2002 animated film with a woolly mammoth 36 Warm, actionoriented sort, they say

37 Part of S O S, in

popular usage 38 Each asterisked clue vis-à-vis its answer

39 Little trickster 40 Scepter’s

go-with

41 Like an evangelical Christian

42 Phrase on a yard

sale tag 43 Kitchen gadgets for mixing 45 Unable to sit still 46 Mother that might have a beard 47 Fast-food utensil 50 2000s teen drama set in California 52 *Hint: hotel 56 Sharpshooter’s asset

57 Kevin ___, investor on TV’s “Shark Tank” 59 As a result 60 Rx watchdog 61 Sweetums 62 Alaska, before 1959: Abbr. 63 Start of many CB radio codes 64 Stands in a studio

65 “So it may ___”

Down

1 Ones always tossing things back? 2 Impose, as a tax 3 Potentially offensive, in brief

4 Relative of a discotheque

5 One of the Obama daughters 6 Implore 7 Slants 8 “Let’s leave ___ that” 9 Mai ___ 10 Order from a police officer 11 *A trails nut 12 Thin fastener 13 Target of an astringent 21 “The tongue of the mind,” per Cervantes 23 Little jerk 25 Paul of “Crocodile Dundee” 26 Cartoon uncle of Scrappy-Doo, informally 27 Bright blue 28 *Bag manager 29 Catherine who married Henry VIII

30 Big rigs 31 Young slave girl in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

33 Like gases in the rightmost column of the periodic table 34 They measure miles in meters 35 “I” strain? 38 One of seven for New York City 42 Common wear for female tennis players 44 Besides 45 Shapiro of NPR 47 Social media button 48 Danger 49 “Absolutely!” 50 President who later served as chief justice 51 Cry to guests at a surprise party 52 Twinings products 53 One leaving in the spring? 54 Brutish sort 55 Average guy? 58 Pasture