The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS 1 On point

4 Lots and lots

9 Cubist Picasso

14 She/___

15 Something to live by 16 Baseball’s all-time R.B.I.

leader 17 “It’ssuper-cozy,andabreeze

toclean!”

20 Site for sponges

21 Advertiser of the Year award,

e.g.

22 Shakespearean schemer 23“You can cancel that gym

membership!”

26 Mild yellow cheese

27 No one in particular 28 Symbol in the center of the

Japanese flag

29 Tiny “tiny”?

30 Says yes silently

31 Painter’s coat

35 Sch. with the mascot Mike

the Tiger

36 Simile’s center

37 Tuba sound

39 Jon M. ___, director of “Crazy

Rich Asians”

40 Winning

42 Discretion

43 Cereal staple

44 Word on Italian street signs 46 Exist

47 “Practical” thing 48“The space has endless

possibilities!”

53 Eclipse, to some 54 Undecided 55 Onetime “divorce capital” of

the U.S.

56 Source of the euphemisms found in the clues for 17-, 23- and 48-Across

60 Like the planets Mercury,

Venus, Earth and Mars 61 In the slightest

62 ___ engr.

63 Indian tea region

64 Hawks

65 Gold stds.

DOWN

1 Sounds of relief

2 Place for cultural studies? 3 Fair market price, say

4 Not flexible

5 Top of the ladder, in brief 6 1997 horror film with the tagline “When you can’t breathe, you can’t scream” 7 Moves into position, as

troops

8 A step up, perhaps

9 Comforting gesture 10 Creator of Christopher Robin 11 Take ten

12 Usual beginning? 13 Winning

18 Consider

19 Noisy squabbles

23 Bloke

24 Only landlocked country in

Southeast Asia

25 Zero

30 You can’t get lower than this 32 Low-cut T-shirt feature 33 Seal the deal

34 Like the planets Jupiter,

Saturn, Uranus and Neptune 37 Part of PG

38 Big name in laptops

41 “Anne of Green Gables” town 42 Something usually found in

brackets

45 P.M. times

47 Form of attachment? 48 Where Gandalf declares “You

shall not pass!”

49 Cries of agreement 50 Clothes that may come

ripped

51 Little bits

52 Eurasian range

57 “Uhh ...”

58 Plumber’s joint

59 Array in an electronics store