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” 10thcentury 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)