The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 1982 sci-fi film with a 2010 sequel
5 Basketball great Erving, to fans
8 Lingo
14 Materialize
16 Six Nations people
17 Half of a 1990s-2000s rock duo with six Grammys
18 Hit hard
19 One sharing school drop
off duties, maybe
21 Director Jean-___ Godard
22 Church fixture
25 Nickname for singer
Justin, with “the”
26 Purposes
27 Unsmiling in demeanor
28 Return payments?
30 Wechat chats, in brief
31 Online news aggregator
founded in 2004
32 Leader prominent in the
1956 Suez Crisis
36 Poetic form featuring lexical repetition rather than rhyme
38 Carve (away)
39 Fiddling (with)
40 Setting for “The King
and I”
41 German 53-Across
42 Number one focus?
44 Gave prompt attention?
45 Some summer cookouts,
informally 48 Splinter group
49 Petrol measure
50 “___ rock!”
51 Extended form of
surveillance
53 Nana
55 Display of skill one might request from 17-Across and 8- and 28-Down … depicted literally four times in this puzzle
59 Scandal, to a career, say
60 John Wayne and Ian
Fleming
61 Doctor who lent his name
to a therapeutic system
62 “___ queen!”
63 It’s a must
DOWN
1 Channel for vintage film buffs
2 Caviar
3 “WHOA!”
4 Stereotypical game show prize
5 Boring person
6 Vegetable with a purple top
7 Ballpark fare served with raspberries?
8 Member of Led Zeppelin
9 Vet school subj.
10 Dreamy sleep stage
11 Dwarfs’ representative in
the Fellowship of the Ring
12 Ancient Greek theater
13 Deal breakers, informally?
15 Read-a-___ 20 Many M.I.T. grads: Abbr.
22 Olds, Keats or Shelley
23 Star-crossed Montague
24 Dress (up)
26 Helper: Abbr.
28 One of the Fab Four
29 Badly hurt
31 Fender blemish
33 Hearty draft pick
34 First name in “wabbit”
hunting
35 Duane ___ (drugstore
chain)
37 Fastens with string
38 Flowering plant that lent its name to a lane on “Desperate Housewives”
40 Short time off work
43 Something “spilled” by a
gossip
44 Lemonlike fruit
45 “I mean it!,” quaintly
46 Carried along
47 Targets of squats,
informally
49 Sugar serving
51 Genial boatswain in
“Peter Pan”
52 Not just mine
54 Stereotypical word in a
heart tattoo
56 Mine yield
57 Letters in the corner of a
phone screen
58 Drug that’s “dropped”