The New York Times

ACROSS

1 Metroliner operator, once 7 Actor Taye of Broadway’s “Rent” 12 Heaven, sweet heaven 15 Hollow-eyed expression? 17 What’s all the buzz about? 18 Physical realm, in cyberpunk

20 Zip

23 One to sniff out 24 “Geez!”

25 ___ o menos (Spanish 101 phrase) 26 Macbeth’s burial isle 29 Lacking any emotion

31 “101 Dalmatians” villain 34 Elephant abductors of legend 35 Longtime dance feature on TV beginning in 1971 38 Digital book file extension 39 Locale for house reps? 40 Sacred choral composition 42 Tube traveler?

43 Domingo, e.g. 46 “___ me!” 47 Christmas tree figurine, maybe 50 Involved with 52 Figures that lack curves 56 Fictional maker of Dehydrated Boulders and Tornado Seeds (“just add water”) 57 Bulk of an experiment 60 Global justice phenomenon sprung from a 2006 Myspace post by Tarana Burke

61 Red sauce alternative 62 Turn-of-thecentury Oldsmobiles

DOWN

1 H.S. course whose textbooks are full of solutions 2 Berth place 3 Jewelry stores? 4 Car on a track 5 Buzz

6 Play around 7 Strike at a newspaper office?

8 Lead-in to a letdown

9 “I ___ Feeling” (2009 charttopper)

10 Party people 11 Show appreciation at a poetry slam 13 Kind of card in cellphones 14 Strong-arm 16 Torch bearer, maybe

19 Big name in the frozen aisle 21 Word before talk or power 22 Teens, e.g. 27 Historic megalomaniac 28 Setting for an 1836 shootout

30 Prune

31 Die, say 32 Schreiber of “Spotlight” 33 Variety of cattle 35 On-air campaign expense 36 Lapped, perhaps 37 Eponymous town in southeastern Connecticut 38 The conqueror Tamerlane, for one 41 Mexican beer brand

43 Less predictable 44 Like early sound recordings 45 Catalysts, as of change

48 Doritos ___ Tacos (fast-food offering) 49 Cereal box word whose third and fourth letters are stylized as bits of cereal 51 Instruction to Alice 53 When repeated, workout class instruction 54 Friend of Mr. Noodle on children’s TV 55 Thruway advisory 58 Wall-E’s love in “Wall-E”

59 Still at Disney World?