The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Tea with tapioca pearls

5 Tear to bits

10 Syringe amts.

13 Anthony Hopkins’s

role in “Thor”

14 France’s longest river 15 Something to draw

names out of

16 Flaw in an argument 19 Inventor David Aguilar built a fully functional prosthetic one from Legos 20 “My treat!”

21 ___ Sea, body of water between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan

22 “August: ___ County”

(Pulitzer-winning play)

24 Walk quietly

26 Void

28 On the briny

29 Weightlifting item

for a biceps routine

33 AOL competitor

34 Messy living area

37 French friend

38 “I love you,” in Spanish 40 Toad’s kid-lit pal

41 Many a beverage ending

in “-ade”

45 Lose rigidity

48 Trophy or medal

49 Abbr. at the end of

a list of authors

50 Marbled loaves

51 Queen’s pawn? 54 Spring-loaded office device ... or a collective hint to 16-, 26-, 34- and 41-Across

58 Cry that’s a homophone

(and anagram) of 55-Down 59 Meat skewer

60 Sign of past stitches, perhaps 61 Simon & Garfunkel’s

“___ Robinson” 62 Georgia school said to be

one of the “Southern Ivies” 63 Fellow bringing a dozen

roses, maybe

DOWN

1 Cattle-catching weapon 2 Strong smell

3 Eagerly awaited

occasion

4 What “their” is spelled with,

but not “there” or “they’re” 5 Like “b-boy” or “my b”

6 “A Study in Scarlet” detective 7 Widespread

8 Notable time period

9 Director Guillermo ___ Toro 10 Reach the Billboard Hot 100,

e.g.

11 Chocolate source 12 Something that editors and clothing designers are concerned with

17 Cold weather wear

18 Folded part of a 17-Down 23 Place for a wax

24 Like a tightrope, ideally

25 Flo Rida hit with the lyric “Champagne buckets still got two tears in it” 26 Standard Oil

offshoot

27 Windows runners 28 Comedian Sedaris

30 Where to swing your partner

‘round and ‘round

31 Bad way to run

32 Equip for sailing

34 Eggplant ___

(Italian dish, familiarly) 35 “It’s my turn!”

36 “There but for the

grace of God ___”

39 Use TurboTax, e.g.

40 Silver ___ (tree of the Alps) 42 Swift to fill a

concert hall?

43 Dorky

44 Scratchy voice quality 45 “Don’t let those

people escape!”

46 Catchall survey option 47 Birds that sing

extravagant melodies 50 Prefix meaning

“automated”

52 Final Four org.

53 No ___ Traffic

55 Barely manage, with “out” 56 Theatrical sort

57 Kind of port seen

at airport kiosks