The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Painting that inspired an iconic “Home Alone” movie poster
10 Locale for a power wash
15 Sugar cubes, e.g.
16 Part of a fraction
17 Certain Australian boomers (male) and flyers (female)
18 1950s-’70s war locale
19 Carrying-on
20 Wing _ _ _
21 Needlework verb or noun
23 Word with mess or press
24 South Asian toddy cats
26 Come together
27 Auction series
28 “Who ___?”
29 Bosporus resident
30 Word on a cornerstone
31 Early-21stcentury crisis, with “the”
35 Choice words
36 Hannah Gadsby’s “Nanette” or Hasan Minhaj’s “Homecoming King”
43 Like some defenses
44 Looking like rain, say 45 Some C.D.C. spots
47 Hot
48 Hi-_ _ _
49 “S.N.L.” alum Rachel
51 Verb whose past tense form is an anagram of its present tense
52 Port letters
53 Taken charge
54 Tobiko or masago
55 “Sayonara!”
57 Competitor in the Prix de Lausanne
60 Assign new keyboard shortcuts to
61 “See? Told ya!”
62 Pioneers’ trips west, e.g.
63 Campus with a landmark statue of Will Rogers on his horse Soapsuds
DOWN
1 Big hit
2 Direction
3 Old flame
4 Comedian Vulcano of “Impractical Jokers”
5 Something “U.S.A.” may be part of
6 Image problem?
7 Add or subtract, say
8 Make, in math
9 Something kept in a Hollywood archive
10 Discreet attention-getter
11 Tony-winning actress Stroker
12 Bathing suit portmanteau
13 “Don’t ask me again!”
14 Verbal equivalent of picking up the gauntlet
22 Certain hydrocarbon
25 Roquefort source
26 Try to get through intuition
27 _ _ _-relief
29 Commercial mascot with floppy ears
32 Code for the primary hub of Delta Air Lines 33 Some pieces in a bucket
34 Tick or tock
36 Decorative painting on an airplane fuselage
37 Aid for going paperless
38 Mid-April, in the U.S.
39 Be feasible, as a proposal
40 Lagunitas offering
41 In a saddle, say
42 Succinct
46 Saya, for a katana
49 “And That Reminds Me” singer Reese
50 Is flabbergasted
52 Click-N-Ship org.
53 Plant that symbolized purity in ancient Egypt
56 Wine barrel wood
58 Game 1 starter, typically
59 Through working: Abbr.