The New York Times
ACROSS
1 Beginner, in lingo
5 Beaten via a referee’s decision, for short
9 Menial position
14 Words sung twice before “A pirate’s life for me”
15 Pint-size
16 Where the terminal dash in “Home Alone” takes place
17 Organized workers
19 Mythical lion’s home
20 Apt name for a worrier
21 One driving kids to a rink, say
23 “Roger that”
26 Sticking points?
27 Hindi for “reign”
28 Honor student’s pride, for short
29 Put up with 30 Accustoms (to)
32 Like planes and flags
33 Kind of lily
34 Fuel for a mustang?
35 Lucky hit for a Ping-Pong player
39 Non-starters
42 Successfully study
44 Impostor syndrome feeling
45 The Heat, on scoreboards
46 Catch
47 Prefix with sexual
48 Jailers … or a hint to “unlocking” four answers in this puzzle
50 Vie to get 52 Sound of a mouse pointer?
53 Skirt
54 She played Billie Jean King in 2017’s “Battle of the Sexes”
58 Formal decrees
59 “___ Creator Omnium” (ancient hymn) 60 Biblical son of Seth
61 Raring to go
62 Francis Drake and Ernest Shackleton, for two
63 Community served by Lambda Legal, in brief
DOWN
1 Sch. with the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
2 Seemingly forev-er
3 Moonshine container
4 Plunder
5 “You shoulda kept that to yourself”
6 Stuffed Jewish dish
7 How some ballet is performed
8 ___ golf
9 Jordan Peele’s production company, named for a classic horror short story
10 Natives of the Great Plains
11 Like some signals and traffic
12 Their name has the “re” of “cream” and the two o’s from “chocolate”
13 Big smile
18 “Psst!” alternative
22 Certain high-fat, low-carb diet, informally
23 Treasures buried in the hills
24 Bob ___, co-creator of Batman
25 Photo ___
29 Calculating
31 Purchases for a high-tech hobby
32 Peeps, so to speak
34 Solution to a bad hair day, maybe
36 1981 video game that featured the first appearance of Mario
37 Age, in a way
38 Moves out to sea
40 Thanksgiving
41 Gen-Z style with emo and anime influences
42 Go public with
43 Bugaboos
44 Boil down
45 Soothing sound
47 “___ On Up” (“The Jeffersons” theme)
48 Marisa of “My Cousin Vinny”
49 ___ One (vodka brand)
50 Actress ___ Pinkett Smith
51 Gangbusters
55 Word with bad or smart
56 Head, slangily
57 The “e” of i.e.