NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

1 Vessel for frying food

9 Variety of green

tea

15 Word with power or

zero

16 Having win after

win

17 Beer you make

yourself

18 Get cell service? 19 Lovelace of

computing fame 20 Some West Point

grads

22 Non-PC?

23 Is an agent for,

informally

25 One end of a kite

string

26 Genuflect, e.g. 27 Indian state known

for its tea

29 The moon, e.g. 30 Book leaf

31 Two, to Teo

33 N.F.L. star who was a Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year in 2017

34 Who said “If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary” 37 Accept the sudden loss of, as an opportunity 38 Children’s author

Beverly 40 “Duuuude!” 41 Flute, e.g.

42 One doing cat scans? 44 “Finished!”

48 Lift 49 Mother-of-pearl 51 Zippo

52 “Here Come the Warm Jets” musician

53 Butts

55 Lead-in to X, Y or Z 56 Lose fizz

58 Classic declaration in Gotham City 60 Burning

61 Not closing before 10 or 11 p.m. 62 Back from a vacation, say 63 Acceptance from fellow brainiacs, in slang

1 Name that comes from Arabic for “desert”

2 Dwellings

3 Many graphics on election night

4 Use it for kicks 5 Italy’s third-largest island, after Sicily and Sardinia 6 Engine sounds

7 At the original speed, in music 8 Publishing debut of 1851, with “The” 9 Lead-in to T, A or X 10 In short order

11 Bit of ink

12 What might have a large collection of prints

13 What Gandhi once likened to an ocean 14 Opening of many a speech

21 Swarm

24 Pathetic one 26 College in Brunswick, Me. 28 Ties up, in a way 30 Oslo setting 32 Furtive

33 LinkedIn listing 34 Mixed martial arts champion Conor ___ 35 Multipurpose 36 First ones to bat 39 Representative sample of a larger group

42 Acid holder

43 ___ l’oeil (illusion) 45 One-named 1950s TV sex symbol 46 Imagine

47 Back from a vacation, say 49 “Gotcha”

50 Old flame?

53 Like Old Mother Hubbard’s cupboard 54 Smooth

57 Burning

59 Spa offering, briefly