NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 ___ 500 6 Building manager, informally 10 Mimics Nicki

Minaj

14 Role for Nichelle Nichols and Zoë Saldana 15 Sue at Chicago’s Field Museum, e.g. 16 Glow 17 Seminal William S. Burrows novel, 1959

19 Proof of

purchase

20 Tar

21 Galaxy

competitor 23 Adolph Coors or Frederick Pabst

26 Crown ___ 29 “Te ___” (Spanish words of affection) 30 Big name in

cosmetics 31 Corporate bigs 32 Actress ___

Dawn Chong 35 Start of a

citation 36 Samurai

swords

38 Car company that sponsors the World Cup 39 Before, in odes 40 Sty occupants 41 Some marsh

flora 43 Spinning 45 Help to cover 46 “The fault lies

here”

49 Comics title character who says “Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery”

50 Folds

53 Instead 54 Pittsburgh is its most populous city 58 Manipulative

sort

59 Ring bearers 60 Special ops

force

61 Super Bowl LIII winners, informally 62 Course

obstacle 63 Defaults?

Down

1 Tanning agent 2 “Eureka!”

moments 3 Quickly heat

up 4 Fantasized 5 Emmynominated host of “Top Chef”

6 ___ double 7 Spigot site 8 Something a bodybuilder might flex, informally 9 Case opener 10 Breakfast

quantity 11 Bodybuilder? 12 Trim 13 Fencing piece 18 Miss

22 Certain P.R., in two different senses

24 In an even

manner 25 Remains

26 Say mockingly 27 “Do I ___!” 28 “Good to go!” 31 Rant and rave 33 Fictional Ethiopian princess 34 “Careful now” 37 Put off 42 Erased 44 Equivocates 45 Farmer’s place,

in song 46 Freeze 47 Lightweight

wood 48 Sudden

movement 51 Muay ___

(martial art) 52 It may be fine

in a stream 55 Plague 56 ___-brained 57 Intensifying suffix, in modern slang