The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Earth and Mars, e.g. 5 “Office- inappropriate”

tag

9 1:15 or 1:30, e.g. 13 Part of a comparison 14 Its motto is “Fiat lux” 15 Part of a guitar 16 *Rosh Hashana and

Yom Kippur

18 “If you come to ___ not understanding who you are, it will define who you are”: Oprah Winfrey

19 H.S. class

20 Regarding this matter 22 Trick

23 Rolls follower

25 *The wolf in “Peter

and the Wolf”

27 ___ People’s Demo

cratic Republic 29 Goddess whose name

means “lovely” 30 Airport aprons 34 Representation 35 Simple recipe instruction ... or a hint to the answers to the four starred clues 37 Measures of cellular

strength

38 Counters

39 She met her husband Frank after beating him in a shooting match

41 Not just “a”

42 *Cape Cod retreats 46 It’s famous for doing

the floss

50 ___ canto

51 Actor Jeremy of “The

Hurt Locker”

53 “The ___ of Pooh” 54 City on the Rhône

56 *Last possible second 58 Formerly, once

59 Its motto is “Lux et

veritas”

60 Make binding, in a

way

61 Meeting, informally 62 Feels crummy

63 Not just smart

DOWN

1 [Not shown here]

2 It has Javan and Suma

tran varieties

3 Like Hammer pants 4 Show that spawned “Wayne’s World,” in brief

5 Wearing just a smile,

say

6 Accessory for a soccer

fan

7 Philadelphia athlete 8 Eggshells and coffee

grounds, typically 9 Switch position 10 Some street fights? 11 Soul sucker in the

Harry Potter books 12 Western hat

17 Start of some souvenir

shirt slogans

21 Small bill

24 Like works of Shakespeare or Frank Sinatra

26 Varmint

28 Ilhan in Congress 30 See red?

31 Punchy ending?

32 AOL freebies, once 33 “M*A*S*H” Emmy

winner

35 1847 novel originally subtitled “An Autobiography”

36 Where flotsam and

jetsam may end up 37 Talks endlessly

40 It covers 6.8% of the Earth’s land area: Abbr.

43 “Bye!”

44 China’s Zhou ___ 45 Fishhook attachment

47 Top story

48 Crack up

49 Lifted

52 Some big nights 55 Advanced degree? 57 Org. whose logo has an eagle grasping a key