The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Directive for the board
10 No big shot
13 Popular pubs for
college grads
15 Finger-point?
16 Footwear with a sturdy
toe
17 Something about you
18 “Suitable for all ages”
rating
19 Non-beef steak option
20 Pass quickly
22 Spots
24 Young point of one’s
life
27 Some damning legal
evidence
30 Enter gradually
33 With 53-Down, article
of close-fitting attire
34 State that many are in when they visit a national park
35 Chairs, for instance
37 Condition treated in
speech therapy
40 Neighbor of the
patellar tendon, in brief
41 ___ gun (sci-fi weapon)
43 Gives a rude
awakening
44 “Until next time!”
48 Fatal attraction?
49 “Need a ___?”
53 Octave follower in a
Petrarchan sonnet 54 Many a prof
56 “Springtime With
___” (2004 Disney adaptation)
57 Quaint word whose syllables rhyme with consecutive numbers
58 Staying vigilant
62 Logo, often
63 Sign to turn back
64 Top ___
65 Something wonderful,
with “the”
DOWN
1 Flits
2 Fruit popular in salads, but not fruit salads
3 Light encouragement
4 “Just stop talking!”
5 Home to Sicily’s Castello di Lombardia
6 “Ni-i-ice!”
7 Alternative to Lunesta or Quviviq
8 “Saint” elsewhere
9 Self-care essential?
10 It’s played with a few
strings
11 Art of cutting cards?
12 Move left … right
… left … right …
14 Ones spreading the gospel through rap music or graffiti
15 Big export of Ecuador
and Nigeria
21 Story line 23 Went quickly
25 Start of many colonial
titles
26 Actress de Matteo of
“The Sopranos”
28 Go quickly
29 Mares, e.g.
30 Valley where David
fought Goliath
31 Characteristic of a wild time or a coming decline
32 Onetime capital of the sovereign Republic of Texas
36 Santa’s coat?
38 Sugar substitute?
39 Novelist Jean
42 “O fairest beauty, do not fear ___ fly!”: “Henry VI, Part I”
45 Shirley of “Goldfinger”
46 Had a date, maybe
47 Pal of Scooby-doo
50 Dunne of classic
screwball comedies
51 Might
52 “Yeah, def”
53 See 33-Across
55 Like some humor and
chocolate
59 Noggin
60 Three-way
intersection
61 Company connection
inits.