The New York Times Crossword

Ahswels below

ACROSS

1 Fair

5 Mary Lincoln’s maiden

name

9 Some drought-resistant plants

14 James of jazz

15 Leader in a kaffiyeh 16 Two-or four-seater,

maybe?

17 “Smile!”

19 Like tomes, typically 20 Address by a Sacramento N.B.A. player? 22 Padre’s hermana 23 Expansive septet 24 Make bubbly 28 Hibernation stations 29 Concern of the Citizens United decision, for short 32 Sharp-shooting Curry 33 Mass ___

34 Around 16 mg of niacin, e.g.

35 Game notes for a New

Orleans N.B.A. player? 38 Officiate, informally 39 ;) ;) ;)

40 “I give!”

41 Surgery sites, for short 42 Things that sometimes clash in orchestras?

43 Amounts at risk

44 Top ___

45 Variety show segment 46 Charlotte N.B.A. player in charge of recycling? 53 “Oof, that was bad” 54 Gutter attachment 55 Write an ode about,

perhaps

56 Wetlands denizen

57 TV show that launched more than 200 songs onto the Billboard Hot 100

58 Work of cartography 59 Tree house?

60 Appear

DOWN

1 Not be serious

2 Home of the Anasazi

State Park Museum 3 Ocular woe

4 Add (on)

5 ___-weenie

6 Rolex rival

7 Put-down 8 Impersonating, in a

way

9 Totally adorable 10 Grateful?

11 Trendy

12 Silicon Valley specialty, familiarly

13 Get to

18 Make an effort to get

swole

21 Corral

24 ___ Blaster (classic

arcade game)

25 Thin air

26 Some barriers to entry in the shipping business? 27 Candy Crush or Angry

Birds

28 Places for aces 29 Pierce slightly 30 Best-selling musical artist whose album titles represent ages 31 Sights along Paris’s

Champs-Élysées 33 Studied secondarily 36 Hybrid feline 37 Messenger molecule 43 Coarse-grained rock

that splits easily

44 Car company founded

in 2003

45 Writer Nin

46 Bit of typing by someone who’s all thumbs? 47 Recover

48 Flavorers in Italian

cookery

49 Dungeons & Dragons

and others, for short 50 4,100+ mile river that

drains 11 countries 51 One-on-one Olympic

event

52 Overflow (with) 53 “Up” vote

ACROSS

1 Calico’s call

5 Droop

8 May honorees 12 “Mamma Mia” group 13 Thanksgiving dessert 14 Ellipse

15 Pots and pans and

such

17 Ward of “Once and

Again”

18 Derisive looks 19 Know-it-all

21 Venus, to Serena 22 Guitarist Clapton 23 Have a bug

26 B’way show purchase

28 Computer symbols 31 Film genre

33 Guffaw

35 Type

36 Jukebox picks 38 Delaware Water — 40 Diane’s role in “The

Godfather”

Answers below 41 New newts 43 Estuary 45 Disqualify (oneself) 47 Capers

51 Sleep like —

52 Julia Child volume 54 Drifting ice

55 “For shame!” 56 Lawyer (Abbr.) 57 Seize

58 “Glee” character —

Sylvester

59 Use a stun gun

DOWN

1 Apple computers 2 Black, in verse 3 Bassoon’s kin 4 Comes to

5 Russian chess champion Boris

6 Melody

7 Gaggle members 8 Inlaid tile designs 9 Make mushy, as

pasta 10 Beer ingredient 11 Do in

16 Legal document 20 Hosp. scan

23 Busy insect

24 Chit

25 Restaurant kitchen

worker

27 Towboat

29 Big D.C. lobby 30 Pigs’ digs

32 Asylum seeker, perhaps

34 Bar singalong 37 Rds.

39 Flamingo’s hue 42 Factions

44 Facing the pitcher 45 Huck’s transport 46 Big name in scat 48 Greek vowel 49 Barracks beds 50 Terrier type 53 Buckeyes’ sch.