The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Event for which participants may take the floor

6 Pestered persistently 10 Hindu love god 14 Grand Prix site 15 Boost at the gym 17 Bugs

18 Actress whose full name can be made from the letters of DO RE MI

19 Alternative to white 20 ___ Jahan, leader who commissioned the Taj Mahal

22 This might be a bust 23 Part of a dash

26 Hoots

27 Treatment that reduces wrinkles 29 Boomsticks?

31 Largest steel producer

in the U.S.

34 Kind of football played

indoors

35 Greek “Mother of the

Gods”

36 Inedible kind of orange

37 Look after

38 Hardly try anymore 39 Column in a baseball

box score 40 Sportscaster Jim

41 50 Cent’s “___ Control”

42 Johnson’s predecessor

as British P.M. 43 Some ranch cattle

45 “X-Men” film spinoff starring Hugh Jackman

47 Congressional campaign

51 University near the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains 53 “Whip It” band

54 1/2 vis-à-vis 1/3, say

55 In direct competition

57 Home of the South by

Southwest festival

59 Big canned soup brand

60 Irritates, with “on” 61 Tricks

62 Critic’s award

63 Best Play and others

DOWN

1 “Crime and Punishment” heroine 2 Private

3 This is the way 4 Hostile look

5 Snacks

6 Nervous witnesses in

mystery novels, often 7 “Blastoff!” preceder 8 Left side, informally 9 Country with hundreds of islands in the Red Sea

10 Former world capital whose name means “capital city” 11 “Ah, yes, I’d been meaning to tell you &”

12 Total mess

13 What “r” might signify 14 Singer Anthony 16 Online service introduced in 2004 21 Frequent subject of headlines in The Onion

24 Difficult journeys 25 “Let me in!”

28 Site for some celebratory dances

30 Bye line?

31 Nothing special, with “the”

32 Nothing special, with “the”

33 “Really, now? Really!?”

35 Electrify

38 Features on topographic maps

40 Walk-ons, often

43 Kendrick of rap

44 Absolutely destroy 46 Pirates’ potables

48 1970s first lady

49 Elite eight

50 Homes in the woods 52 Early illustrator of

Uncle Sam

55 No. that’s converted

for electric cars

56 Org. that shares its HQ

with Cyber Command 58 Drain