The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Travel requirement, at times 5 Where the 10 countries with the lowest median age are all located

11 Sounds of surprise

14 Book before Romans

15 “King James”

16 Word before nail or after steel 17 Cluster, as of grass

18 Product of volcanic activity 19 Certain grueling race,

informally

20 Factory ___

22 Moccasins, but not oxfords 24 Voice of doom

27 It’s a me problem

28 End up OK

29 Boring bit

31 Not forbidden

32 “A Doll’s House” playwright 33 Quattro preceder

36 “Joking!”

37 Secret traders

38 Father on “Modern Family” 39 Prof’s helpers

40 Mary, Queen of ___ 41 Roman fountain name 42 Digital money

43 Van Gogh masterpiece

44 One daying for a cause 47 Leave a mark on?

49 Put up

51 Japanese exporter of diesel

engines

52 Coastal inlet

53 “___ Fideles”

55 Letters that go in both blanks

of ___ ___tofferson

58 Jug unit: Abbr.

59 Comfy shoe

60 Bank note made of pure

cotton fiber 61 Bow-making timber 62 “Enthusiasm is the mother of ___”:

Ralph Waldo Emerson 63 One may ask for a dinner

preference

DOWN

1 Acid container, maybe

2 Hosp. area

3 Friar known for his patronage

of animals

4 What had a major impact on

this puzzle’s theme? 5 Notwithstanding

6 Guinness records, typically 7 Some handoff recipients in

football, for short

8 Some investments, in brief 9 Boston, Amherst and others 10 Immune response trigger 11 “Great” 10th-century emperor 12 Features of many

ceratopsians

13 Something possibly triggered

during a mass extinction event 21 Blue material

23 “___ favor”

24 Accelerated H.S. English

course 25 First dog on an orbital

spaceflight

26 Novelist King who wrote “Caretakers” and “One on One”

30 Applications

32 Some W.S.J. topics

33 Writer’s reference … or what each row of shaded letters is missing?

34 It helps keep a tight ship tight 35 Beethoven’s “Für ___” 37 Spooked by

38 Annual architecture award 40 Ancient method of encipherment with a message wrapped around a cylinder 41 Pants, but half off?

42 List follower

43 Newspaper supplement 44 Come together

45 Common typeface

46 Ruler’s dimensions? 48 Crystalline mineral deposits in

some caves

50 Like Beethoven, by his mid

40s

54 West Coast airport code 56 Music producer Gotti who

worked with Ja Rule and J.Lo 57 Soak (up)