NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

“We choose to go to the moon” speaker, for short 4 Collection awaiting

analysis 11 Childhood vaccine

combo

14 Will be present? 15 Amorphous, in a

way

16 Singer Carly ___

Jepsen

17 Six-time Dodgers

All-star Ron 18 Ceramic iron compound that’s nonconductive 19 Usher’s offering 20 Auntie Em and Uncle Henry, for two

22 Dry cleaner

24 “I already said I

would!”

25 Battle of the ___ 27 2009 Beyoncé hit containing the lyric “I got my angel now”

28 Be accepted by

one’s peers 30 Head of House Stark on “Game of Thrones”

31 Critic, in modern

lingo

32 Predatory relatives

of coral

34 Truffle hunting

option 1

35 Some smartphones 36 Bit

37 One isn’t good for

cellphone service 38 Geom. figure 39 Pomeranian, for

one

41 Send out again 43 Refinement

44 Ford or Lincoln

45 Muscly

46 Old movie unit

47 “Shut up!”

49 ___ v. Alston (landmark 2021 Supreme Court antitrust decision) 50 Takes the throne,

say

52 Actress Angela of

“Malcolm X” 54 Play-___

55 Style moderne 57 Cause of some

head-scratching 58 Suffix in linguistics 59 Star that’s actually

three stars 60 Phillipa ___, original

Eliza in “Hamilton” 61 French possessive 62 Professor ___

63 One backward

musician?

DOWN

1 Certain multitasker? 2 Amazeballs 3 Conference highlights 4 Tennis’s Nadal, informally

5 Good faith agreements? 6 Went downhill 7 German article 8 Accepted without objection

9 “___ Andronicus” 10 Nails

11 Freedom for a screenwriter, say 12 Failing a drug test or leaving the state, maybe

13 Erasable ink?

21 Go through lightly 23 Trumpeter Jones 26 Kisses, symbolically 29 Taboo

31 Biblical peak 33 Badger or hound 34 Wander

37 Thiamine deficiency disease

40 Hollow

41 Took off

42 “Queen of denial” and “knight and day”

44 Make a certain chess move 47 Obsolescent PC insert

48 Implied

51 Resting spot for some buns 53 Slammin’ Sammy 56 Give: Sp.