The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 ___ Garden, London district known for diamond trading

7 Bump fists

10 Form of jazz 13 Ventilate thoroughly

14 Sonic the Hedgehog company

15 Actress de Armas 16 Insect with powerful hind legs 18 Mormons, in brief 19 Something Santa makes (and checks twice)

20 Riddle-me-_ _ _ 21 ___ Park, Colo. 23 Grade downgrade 24 Hand: Sp. 26 Naughty’s opposite 27 Clouseau’s rank: Abbr.

28 Difficulties in life 30 Jeanette ___, billiards legend nicknamed the Black Widow 31 Objectivist Rand 32 Slow-cooked dish 33 The Wildcats of the N.C.A.A., informally

35 Rubes, in Canadian lingo

39 Princes, e.g. 41 Longing

42 Animator’s sheet 43 Film technique used in old

California Raisins ads

47 Novelist Jaffe 48 Go steady with 49 Plant pouches 50 Wilma’s pal on “The Flintstones” 51 Responses of “the unheard,” per Martin Luther King Jr.

53 Japanese drama 54 Starting

55 Use a “+”

56 Playing area usually having one of the surfaces seen at the starts of 16-, 28- and 43-Across 60 Rechewed food 61 x or y, in plane geometry

62 News anchor Mitchell

63 Mil. mess personnel

64 1990s Fox dramedy with Charles S. Dutton

65 Abate

DOWN

1 Sea ___ (enemy of Popeye)

2 El Al et al.

3 Lionel collection 4 50-50 chance 5 Red-cards, in a soccer match 6 To the ___ degree 7 Ambivalent reply to “Can you do me a favor?”

8 It’s “just a number” 9 Trim

10 Second-least valuable avenue in Monopoly after Mediterranean 11 Batting next 12 Overtakes

14 Bit of asparagus 17 Financial expert Suze

22 Winter falls

23 Cereal go-with 25 “Um, all righty” 28 “Laughing” animals

29 _ _ _ Deion

(onetime football nickname)

31 Tiny bit

34 Until now

36 Trips to support conservation

37 Not paying a cent, as a tenant

38 Leave rolling in the aisles

40 Containing tin 41 Dinosaur in Super Mario World 43 Once-popular place to store music

44 In bed after an injury, say 45 Quarreling

46 Trash cans on computer screens, e.g

47 Covers again, as a lawn

50 Skin problem portmanteau

52 Old TV’s “___ Search”

57 Prefix with skeleton

58 Pizzeria owner in “Do the Right Thing”

59 Amy who wrote “The Joy Luck Club”