The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Discipline with tantric Buddhist origins 10 Ruses

15 Congresswoman who wrote “This Is What America Looks Like”

16 “I’m not a ___” (online confirmation)

17 Cramming together, e.g.?

18 Unfold

19 Mixer at a mixer

20 Celebrity gossip source

22 “Do you, my poppet, feel infirm? / You probably contain a ___”: Ogden Nash

23 Indonesian province with a Hindu majority

25 Ultimate purpose

27 Chives feature

29 When you might hear people sing, for short

30 Relative of latex

32 Literally, “trumpets”

33 Pile of texts?

35 They push a motion forward

36 Ready for a back rub, say

37 What cooks your goose?

38 Something that’s cracked and gross

40 Manage to stop

41 “Your point being?”

42 20 sources

43 14-time N.B.A. All-Star Nowitzki

44 Become more appealing to

46 Its tongue sticks out

48 On the job

49 Spotted, as a horse

51 Healthy slice

55 Delta connection?

57 Travel by private jet, say

59 Informal summons

60 “Hammer” with a bat

61 Line on a letter

62 Nasdaq’s home, informally

Down

1 Noise that sounds like its last two letters

2 Part in the middle?

3 Bad result of an attempt at humor

4 Lived it up

5 Whichever

6 Belt out in the mountains

7 Like some rials

8 Airport ticket info

9 “Can I go now?”

10 Lead-in to K

11 Center of Pluto?

12 Think, think, think about

13 Rude response to rudeness

14 Marijuana discard

21 Half-blood wizard of fiction

24 They get harder the more you work out

26 Wigmaker’s supply

27 Stalling

28 One who’ll take you for a ride

29 Their spines aren’t flexible

31 Small carton size

32 “There!”

33 Big matter of concern for senior management?

34 Washington, Jackson or Ford

36 Half of an evening outfit, informally

39 Turn in the air, say

40 Bother

45 “S.N.L.” alum who co-starred in 2003’s “Dumb and Dumberer”

46 Most prolific author of children’s horror fiction, per Guinness

47 Makes like a goose

48 Parentheses, e.g.

50 Organizer of a couples getaway?

52 Instrument created by Hermes from a tortoise shell 53 Plant with fleshy leaves

54 Warped

56 Card holder, maybe

58 Didn’t sell