The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Cuckoo 5 Showed

9 Stack (or snack) on a table 14 Literally, “highest city”

16 Mystical

characters 17 “This place

looks horrible!” 18 Highway through the Yukon 19 Site where top hats and canes might be checked at the door 21 Make 22 Drummer

Starkey 23 Sound that might be made while rubbing the arms

25 TV boy with

spiked hair 27 In front of,

to Shakespeare 29 Org. since 1902 with 50+ million members 30 Throw a long

football pass 32 Intermission

starter?

33 Part of XXX 34 California’s Harvey

___ College 35 Santa player

in “Elf”

37 Food sticker 38 “Star Wars”

nickname 39 Chucklehead 40 Rebounded 42 Old RR

watchdog 43 Like some

columns 45 Lacerate 46 Court ruling 47 “Eww,

no more!” 48 Memo directive 50 2012 #1 hit

by LMFAO 56 Internet

hookup

57 Like Sprite 58 Hindu

aphorisms 59 Producer of red-and-white blooms

60 Get low 61 Practice

62 No longer

a draft, say

Down

1 Homey

2 It hurts

3 Ollie’s friend

on old TV 4 Walked

unsteadily 5 Bug

exterminator? 6 Mount Holyoke

grad, e.g.

7 Act out 8 Sports-themed

restaurant 9 Soup go-with 10 Bottom

of the sea? 11 Development

period

12 Dim 13 Application

fig. 15 Oenophile’s

pride

20 “The Flies”

playwright 24 Went pit-a-pat,

pit-a-pat 25 Doesn’t stay in the hole, as a ball 26 Hooked on 28 Prada

competitor 30 Communication service since 2004

31 Pablo Picasso’s designer daughter 36 Jared Kushner, as a notable example 37 Where people

go to vote 39 Concierge’s

handout 41 Narrow recess 44 Relative of

an alligator 49 Portmanteau

garment 51 Prefix with

-graphic 52 Prefix with

-graphic 53 Subterfuge 54 Opposite of “Too rich for me” 55 Word with

road or blood 56 Pile at a publisher: Abbr.

No. 0428