The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Places where surgeries are performed, for short

4 Not in any way, in dialect 9 Composition of many reefs 14 Sneaky laugh 15 Practice piano piece

16 “The Phantom of the ___”

17 Gets past, as an obstacle

19 Say

20 Spiral shapes 21 Private eye, quaintly

23 Tattoos, informally

24 In that case 25 Where pirates roam

27 Vogue competitor 28 Period in human history after bronze was supplanted in toolmaking

30 ___ Lilly & Co. 31 Website for techies

32 Zaps, in a way 35 Omitted

37 Opposite of 35-Across? 39 Worrisome directive from a boss

40 Divisions of a subdivision 41 ___ Bird, manytime W.N.B.A. All-Star

42 Child’s play 44 It rhymes with fire, appropriately 45 Opposite of 25-Across? 48 Frisbee, e.g. 49 Flexible blackjack card

50 Male cat

51 Hyundai compact 54 2014 Ava DuVernay drama 56 Opposite of 17-Across?

58 Place to go for the highlights?

59 Wham or bam

60 Pig follower in the Chinese zodiac 61 Beginning

62 Gown

63 Moody genre of music or fashion

DOWN

1 “Pick me! Pick me!”

2 Wake-up calls played on bugles 3 Twinkies have a long one

4 Classic wafer brand

5 Nebraska native 6 Carries a tune, in a way

7 Poem of praise 8 Hilton competitor

9 Visual jokes in openings of “The Simpsons” (a tradition since the first episode) 10 Make a choice 11 Knot again

12 Venue with tiered seating

13 Birds that do things just for the fun of it?

18 What good soufflés do 22 “Liberté, ___, fraternité” (Haiti’s motto)

25 Spicy

26 Informal gettogether

27 Sinuous swimmer 28 Raging blaze

29 One tweeting about football? 31 Warrior

33 Place to sell homemade crafts online

34 Enchilada topping, maybe 36 Blue-green shade 37 The New Yorker cartoonist Chast 38 Jill Biden ___ Jacobs

40 ___ ...tats-Unis 43 Hillary who climbed Mount Everest with Tenzing Norgay 44 Radar sound

45 Dogie catcher 46 Atlantic or Pacific 47 Wishing sites 48 Induces to pull a prank, maybe 51 Actress Falco

52 Not so much 53 Regarding

55 Leader of the Three Stooges 57 Oslo’s country: Abbr.