NEW YORK TIMES DAILY 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 1990s2000s 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 MIT 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”