The New York Times Crossword
No. 1118
ACROSS
1 Modern meeting organizer
9 Opens up, in a way
15 Radicchio relative
16 Common bit of knitwear
17 Kitchen item for preparing cookies or pizza
18 Keep
19 Shade named for a bird
20 Recipe part
22 Certain descriptor after a signature nowadays
23 Elder Stark daughter on “Game of Thrones”
25 Try
27 ___ Institute, home of the Carl Sagan Center
28 Brown-y points, for short?
30 Start on a draft, say
32 Drove
33 Feast for “holiday orphans”
37 Writer with good taste?
38 One way to stress something that’s important
39 Caribbean spirit
40 Hit song title for Abba or Rihanna
41 Apple core, for short
42 Athlete’s affliction also called “twisties” in gymnastics, with “the”
44 Musical intermission?
47 Leaves for lunch, maybe
51 Walks and runs, e.g.
53 Makeup of some wet bars
55 It may be buried
56 On now
58 Arcade fixture with miniature toys and candy as prizes
60 Proceed with gusto
61 “Did you enjoy yourself?”
62 Sessions of congress?
63 Flashes of understanding
DOWN
1 Kitchen shavings
2 ___ Jackson Jr., actor who portrayed his father in “Straight Outta Compton”
3 Charybdis’ milieu
4 Charybdis, for one
5 Treatment for someone in transition, in brief
6 “My bad!”
7 Mattress support
8 Something held in church
9 Channel established under a royal charter
10 Genesis woman
11 Retreats in the sand
12 Up and coming
13 One decidedly not laissezfaire
14 Supposed
21 Turn down
24 Brand with three stripes
26 Burger burgled by the Hamburglar
29 Slice of pie, mathematically
31 Contents of some old calendars
33 Festivity with mountains of bubbles
34 Bangs, e.g.
35 Gamer’s post-purchase addons, for short
36 Photo of someone holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa, say
37 Like a daiquiri vis-à-vis a shot of whiskey, say
38 Curing technique
43 Moves around
45 2014 Winter Olympics locale
46 Sharp point on a kite
48 One might attach to a toddler’s backpack
49 Receive
50 The 411
52 Apt rhyme for “fit”
54 Print sources, maybe
57 E.T.A. provider
59 Setting for the film “1917,” familiarly