NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across 1 & 5 Fiancée 9&14 Recyclable metal

15 & 16Real estate showing 17 & 18It’s all downhill from here

19 & 20Graphic artist’s medium 21&22 Something neat, with “the” 23 & 25Pasties, e.g.

26 & 27Close with a handle 29 & 32Partisan divide, so to speak

33 & 35Exhausts 36 & 37Bunny hill, for one

39 & 41“Hang on …”

42 & 43Some perfume ingredients

44 & 46What a considerate speaker tries to strike

47 & 49Toppled by the wind 51&54 Appropriate ratio for this puzzle?

55 & 56Raised one’s paddle, say

57 & 58Quaker in the woods 59&60 Ones whose livelihoods are derived from agriculture or forestry work 61 & 62Some retirement savings

Down

1 Connection you might miss while flying? 2 Charter member of OPEC 3 Genre for Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez 4 Photo lab request: Abbr. 5 Rental availability sign 6 Boy on “The Andy Griffith Show”

7 $100 bills, in slang 8 Chemical suffix that’s also a direction 9 Perform brilliantly 10 Items set up in

agility drills 11 “Wow, no

manners!” 12 Warts and all 13 Smallest hail size, about a quarter-inch in diameter 21 Hayride seats 22 High flier

24 Approximate shape of the British pound sign

25 Baby food form 26 Fish with a pointed snout 27 Remained in effect 28 Source of power for a golf swing 29 Holder of a toothbrush, toothpaste, comb, etc. 30 Shacks 31 Ticket abbr. that’s found inside “ticket abbr.” 32 Buffoon 34 Faint from emotion

38 ___ Hubbard, Scientology founder

40 French department that borders Switzerland 44 Sort who’s lost all hope 45 Jesse who broke three world records in 45 minutes 46 Message that can be favorited 47 “Like a ___!” 48 Easy run 49 Choice in a sleepover game 50 Extolling poetry 52 Turkey piece 53 Casino calculation 54 Greek consonant 55 Any of the Sierra Nevadas: Abbr. 56 Sierra Nevada, e.g.