The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Ultracool

person 7 Moneybags 13 Queen of rap 14 Penguin

species 15 Diffuse through 16 They make waves in the ocean 17 Hollywood

V.I.P.s: Abbr. 18 Roomba, for

one

20 Bar at a roast 21 Called for 22 Sounded off 23 Bear in a 2012 film and its 2015 sequel 24 Not much 26 With 45-Across, not be direct … or what four groups of black squares in this puzzle do? 28 Parks who stood up for the right to sit down 29 Sequoia, e.g. 31 Financial

promise 33 Certain lighters 35 Actor Peters of “American Horror Story” 36 MapQuest

feature 40 Impressionist

artist?

44 Letter before Peter in the Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet 45 See 26-Across 47 Scam

48 Just fine 49 ___ acid 50 Little jerk 51 Alien such as

Jabba 53 Methuselah’s

father

55 Best Picture partly adapted from a C.I.A. operative’s book 56 Breakout

consoles 58 “Grease” actress whose first name consists of the same two letters twice 60 “Let’s call

it a day!” 61 Eight-time Gold Glove winner Jim

62 Forward

63 Nets with

weights

Down

1 It might hold your glasses 2 Security cam

sites

3 Certain

nutritionist 4 “Our deeds still travel with us from ___, / And what we have been makes us what we are”: George Eliot 5 Zen

enlightenment 6 “Whole”

amount 7 Word before food, paradoxically? 8 Extreme

fandom 9 Treasury

bills?

10 #2 on Rolling Stone’s list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists” 11 Most open 12 Stressful time

for a student 13 Played

smoothly 15 Handle roughly 19 Well-timed 25 “The Many Loves of ___ Gillis” 26 Relative of a

cockatoo 27 Provider of protection from the rain 28 Dressing

choice

30 Red hair

tint 32 Allowance 34 Penn : Wharton

:: M.I.T. : ___ 36 Jointly run 37 Personal

website section 38 Soda can

features 39 Scannable black-andwhite boxes 41 They have souped-up engines 42 Endorses

digitally 43 Drone’s job,

maybe

46 Stop waffling 52 Sequoia, e.g. 53 Abbr. before a

year

54 ___ cable (computer/TV connector) 55 Embarrassing

spots?

57 John, in

Scotland

59 Na+ or Cl–