The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Daft Punk or the White Stripes 4 Small piano 10 “Yeah, sure!” 14 Raggedy ___ 15 Al who won a Best Actor Oscar for “Scent of a Woman” 16 Hatcher of “Desperate Housewives” 17 Toy with a spring, literally

19 Wise one

20 The Red Baron, for one 21 Shakespeare’s “___ of Athens” 23 Actor Keach 24 Put an early stop to, literally 28 Prefix with -morph 29 Greek god whose name sounds like a zodiac sign 30 Timothy who wrote “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out” 31 Interfere, literally 33 “I wish I was an Oscar Mayer wiener …,” e.g. 34 Willy ___, pioneering writer on rocketry

35 Go out with 36 Biden : Obama :: ___ : Biden 40 Undecided, literally

45 Good pick for a mountaineer? 46 “Like … now!” 47 What prices do during inflation 48 Unrealistic, as wishes, literally 50 Language from which “curry” and “catamaran” come 51 Guinness classification 52 Norman of the Clinton and Bush cabinets 53 Marijuana 55 “Years ago …,” literally 58 “Downton Abbey” title

59 Start a journey 60 Methuselah’s reached 969 years 61 Occupied with many things 62 Some swords, to Brits 63 Director Browning of 1931’s “Dracula”

DOWN

1 Spreadsheet figures 2 Release, as a trailer

3 A fixed fee 4 In la-la land 5 Pick up the ___ 6 “Eww!”

7 Tip of a pen 8 Online memos

9 Poison 10 “Come on in!” 11 Shape-shifting seat

12 Part of a joule 13 Cause for overtime

18 New York’s ___ K. Javits Convention Center 22 Setting

24 It goes up during takeoff

25 “Yo!”

26 Text that’s often blue and underlined 27 Batik, e.g. 29 Blows away 32 Sorcerer’s concoction 33 Vehicle in “M*A*S*H” 35 Two-wheeled carriage 36 Angel’s wish

37 German cry 38 53-Across cigarettes

39 At a fast clip 40 Sound accompanying a finger wag 41 April 1 doing 42 Targeted 43 “Can we move forward?” 44 Not delivered directly, say 46 It can take your breath away 49 ___ Park, Colo. 50 Watch sounds 52 Stallion’s mate 53 Source of information for Spider-Man, with “the”? 54 Contents of l’océan

56 Flow out 57 Keep out