NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Large seashell

6 “Uncle ___ Wants You”

9 Social influence

14 Director Kurosawa

15 Uncle: Sp.

16 Reddish-brown dye

17 “This is my final offer”

20 What may have the solution to your vision problems?

21 Sign up

22 Attire for Caesar

24 Next-___ technology

25 Like something

that’s polarizing

32 Licoricelike flavoring

33 Mentions by name, in a tweet

34 Word after “That’s my” or “right on”

36 Opening of an article, in journalism lingo

37 Put off until later, as a motion

39 Lip service? 40 King Kong or Donkey Kong

41 Forbidden action

42 Official language of Iran

43 “Get out of the way!”

47 Bird in a barn

48 Tip (over)

49 D.C. mayor Muriel

52 Not-quite-inshape male physiques

57 Having no middle ground between success and failure

59 Country singer Steve

60 Try to win over romantically

61 German river to the North Sea

62 Material for Cinderella’s slipper

63 “On the Basis of ___” (film about Ruth Bader Ginsburg)

64 Like some hills and prices

Down

1 Actress Blanchett

2 “Sure, why not”

3 Brand with a swoosh logo

4 Good reputation, in slang

5 Ponytail necessity

6 Halting, as rushhour traffic

7 Put on TV

8 Small mammal that lives mostly underground

9 Homes in the Alps

10 Adam ___, longtime panelist on “The Voice”

11 Half of the digits in binary code

12 Cubit or karat

13 Pic that might use 16-Across

18 Play a trumpet, e.g.

19 Command to the helmsman from Jean-Luc Picard

23 Purchase at the Met museum, maybe

25 In ___ land

26 Time in New York when it’s noon in Chicago

27 Feature introduced to the iPhone in 2009

28 Opposite of WNW

29 Rogue computer in “2001: A Space Odyssey”

30 “You have my sympathy”

31 Former Hawaii representative Gabbard

35 Send off, as rays

37 W.C.

38 Tiny builder of tunnels and hills

39 Some college grads, for short

41 Hit 2012 musical about paperboys

42 Documents, Downloads, Desktop, etc.

44 A,E,I,O,U… and sometimes Y

45 Big name in DVD rental kiosks

46 Titular Shakespearean king

49 Biblical false god

50 Vegetable used to thicken stews

51 Counterpart of columns

53 Thai currency

54 1930s migrant

55 Have a nice meal

56 Any rung on a ladder

57 Actress Ryan

58 ___ v. Wade