The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Means of supervision? 9 Co-winner of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize

15 Kisses and hugs 16 “I can ___”

17 What can strike up a tune?

19 Tiny bit of concern

20 Saint associated with the Russian alphabet

21 ___ jure (by the law itself: Lat.) 24 Discover fortuitously

26 Rail construction 29 “Buzz off!”

30 Florida city in the middle of “horse country”

31 Soft shade 32 Pioneer in instant messaging

33 Fire (up)

34 Watch from the shadows, say 35 Industrial support 37 Easy mark

39 As it happens 40 Critical

41 Silent ___

42 Small grouse 43 Refreshers

44 Unlike filibusters

47 Shelter from a storm, perhaps 48 Negotiation site that led to the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize

49 Appropriate

50 Draft teammates? 51 Mythological lyrist

53 Fictional narrator whose first name is a fruit

55 Epitome

61 Wireless network necessity

62 Toon with a brother named Castor

63 Oxford pad, e.g. 64 Locale in SW France

DOWN

1 Beyond steamy 2 Boy’s name that means “king” 3 Rose by another name?

4 “Anybody there?!”

5 Fair 6 Accompaniment for a bottle of rum 7 Beautiful and rare 8 Chaz, to Cher

9 ___ Game, annual event on the second Saturday of December

10 Raise

11 Everything considered 12 Occasion for Druids to gather at Stonehenge 13 Absorbed

14 Winter festival 18 Grandes ___, part of France’s higher education system

21 Reiterated refusal 22 Admissions to a counselor 23 Network of nerves in the abdomen

25 Rarer than rare 27 Keep on keeping on

28 Stop for a bit 36 Employ for lack of better options

37 Place to pick up litter?

38 Comeback that sounds like a “Star Wars” character

45 Without incident 46 Alchemist’s offering 47 Flimflammers

52 His brother was no keeper

54 One end of the narthex

55 Prefix with -assic 56 Countless lifetimes 57 Keystone figure 58 Who wrote “All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream”

59 Pipe cleaner

60 High rails