NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Crooked, as a painting on the wall

6 Nine-digit ID

9 How revenge (or pizza for breakfast) is best served

13 Steeple

14 Noshed

15 Corporate rule or regulation

16 Concept that can’t be criticized or questioned, metaphorically

18 Tennis’s Agassi

19 Torah holders

20 Bigeye or yellowfin tuna, at a sushi bar

21 Feel great sorrow

22 Shout made with a fist pump

23 Seafood often served with picks

25 Dab, as with a paper towel

27 Chicago trains

28 Not showy

30 Language spoken in Bangkok

32 Ballet dancer’s knee bend

36 Pre-employment investigation

39 “A guy walks into a bar …” may start one

40 Caesar’s words to Brutus

41 Music Mann?

42 Shoofly ___

43 Norway’s biggest city 44 Cocktail named for two iconic beverage brands 50 Catch forty winks 53 Changes, as a

hemline 54 22-Across, in

French 55 Regarding 56 Latin for “in itself” 57 Behaved in a laidback way 59 Connections for

car wheels 60 Author Edgar

Allan ___

61 In an unusual

way

62 Army’s football

rival

63 Mr. Potato Head

piece

64 Sell illegally, as

tickets

Down

1 Test for purity

2 What a diagonal line represents on a bowling scoresheet

3 Relaxes

4 Commits a fumble

5 Small, to a Scot

6 Borat creator ___ Baron Cohen

7 Showing no emotion

8 Either “N” in NY, NY

9 Jaded doubter

10 More ancient

11 Stage in a butterfly’s development

12 Socially inept sort

15 Poets of yore

17 It’s tossed toward a bull’s-eye

21 Frozen

23 Viet ___ (armed force of the 1960s-’70s)

24 Reeves of the “Matrix” films

26 Thumbs-up on Facebook

28 Gooey lunchbox sandwich, informally

29 Language spoken in Vientiane

30 Schlepped

31 Primitive dwelling

32 TV’s Dr. ___

33 San Pellegrino offering

34 “Rocks” that clink in a drink

35 ___ out a living

37 Rider’s handful

38 Assignment for a lawyer

42 Removes skin from

43 “The Grapes of Wrath” figure

44 Mount Fuji’s locale

45 Amazon “assistant”

46 PC command to paste

47 Ken who wrote “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”

48 Hot drink with marshmallows

49 Word before space or limits

51 Coral islet chain

52 Coral reef producer

55 “Highway to Hell” rock group … or a hint to electrical switches found in 16-, 23-, 36-, 44 and 57-Across

57 Gorilla, e.g. 58 Uno + uno