The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Word with straw or exit 5 Kept in the loop, in a way 9 Org. originally founded to

protect carriage horses 13 Oregon-based shoe company 14 Ring light?

15 Broken up

16 Atingle, maybe

17 Gaelic language

18 The hate in hate mail 19 Name in price lists?

20 Larson who won Best Actress

for 2015’s “Room”

21 ___ Heights

22 Instruct for a new job, say 24 Unfashionable unisex

hairstyle

26 Burros

27 Black-tie affairs

29 Projection from the

fashionably late

30 Short life?

32 Groove

33 Fresh talk

34 Fortunate circumstances … or a punny hint to the shaded letters

37 Some tap offerings, in brief 39 Susan of “L.A. Law”

40 Cousin of a cassowary

41 Like some of the mil. 42 Actress Thompson of “Sorry

to Bother You” 44 Super-super

48 John who wrote “The Pelican

Brief”

50 More up-and-down, as a

relationship

52 Up

53 Guitarist’s accessory 54 Surveillance org.

55 Really hate

56 Short meeting?

57 French breakfast item that sounds like a response to a gut punch

58 A little of this, a little of that 59 One who may need

credentials

60 Avatar of Vishnu

61 Give up

62 A moose has a big one 63 “Less Than Zero” writer ___

Easton Ellis

DOWN

1 Big bakery/cafe chain 2 Seeds-to-be

3 Caps

4 Place to conduct forensics 5 French beloved

6 What sharing is, per a

rhyming expression 7 Otherwise

8 Mommie deer-est? 9 Something you need to do to

solve crosswords

10 Universal solutions 11 Pastries with a portmanteau

name 12 Where bills get passed, for

short

15 Swears 20 Meat-and-potatoes 21 Colonel Sanders feature 23 “U R A Q-T!,” e.g.

24 “It was all a ___”

25 Some Ph.D. students 28 Fast-food chain with a

cowboy hat in its logo 31 “Whatever you say, hon” 33 Move furtively

34 Showered, as with gifts 35 Quaint response of

agreement

36 “Duck ___” (classic Warner

Bros. cartoon short) 37 Gerund suffix

38 Bit of preachy prose

42 Left base?

43 Emerges

45 Lack of musical skill

46 Take up again

47 Oslo Accords figure

49 Gem

51 Earthy hue

53 Philippine currency

55 Start of a kindergarten ditty 56 Good picnic forecast 57 56-Down, e.g.