The New York Times

ACROSS

1 Tibetan monk

5 On the ___

(fleeing)

8 Something caught

in a theater

13 Bajillions

14 Emotion that may

be pent up

15 Saoirse of “Lady

Bird”

16 Famous fighting

words

19 High-maintenance

star

20 Spiritual leader who rides in a customized car

21 Musician Bartók or

Fleck

22 Took to court

23 Item made of ingredients grown without pesticides

29 Good number to

shoot for

30 As well

31 “Tightrope” singer

Janelle

32 They’s pronoun

partner

34 Uberfan, in

modern lingo

37 Machines that remove cotton seeds

38 “Honestly, though

…”

40 Web crawler, of a

sort

42 Up to, informally

43 Color-matching puzzle game with billions of downloads

1 2 13 16 23 29 32 61 47 Acronym for a champion among champions

48 100 cents

49 “Mind ... blown!”

53 “My Sister’s Keeper” author Picoult

54 Travel crosscountry … or a description of what 16-, 23- and 43-Across do?

58 Sch. founded by

Ben Franklin

59 Old “You’ve got

mail” sloganeer

60 Radio dial

61 Good thing to have

on the books

62 Pick up

63 “Neither rain nor

snow …” org.

DOWN

1 Hammurabi’s area

of expertise

2 Chicken _ _ _ king

3 Misunderstood song lyric like “’Scuse me while I kiss this guy”

4 Hun from whom Dracula claims to be descended, in Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”

5 Pop star Dua ___

6 Horror director

Aster

7 Rendezvous (with)

8 Battle cry in

“Braveheart”

9 Roller coaster

feature

Edited by

10 What is offered

when you call 411

11 Overly theatrical,

as a B-movie

12 Part of pants that

may be well worn

17 ___-garde

18 “Clueless”

protagonist

21 Hindu god of

creation

22 Ewan McGregor or Craig Ferguson, by birth

23 That’s some nerve!

24 Siri’s platform

25 Jackapoo or

schnoodle

26 Christians who don’t believe in the Trinity

27 “Are we done

here?”

28 Scientist on one side of the “War of the Currents”

33 Fuming

Will Shortz No. 0411

35 Share a border

with

36 Votes against

39 Lawrence Taylor, for all his NFL career, in brief

41 Teen drama that inspired “Laguna Beach”

44 Pulls a fast one on

45 Motley

46 Puzzle craze of

2006

49 The rain in Spain?

50 Brooms : Roombas

:: ___ : Scoobas

51 “Pocket rockets,”

in poker

52 The “Z” of ZIP

code

53 Cola brand with a lightning bolt in its logo

55 Single digit?

56 Soak (up)

57 Onetime network

for Conan O’Brien