CROSSWORD New York Times
ACROSS
1 Carrier letters
4 Stuff of substance?
9 Phrase in a round of bidding
14 0% 16 Initiate, as a campaign
17 Novel idea?
18 Stanley Tucci's character in The Devil Wears Prada
19 Half of a train?
20 “I'll take the blame”
22 Like some curries and currants
23 Flattest state in the U.S.: Abbr.
26 They might be booked for getaways
28 Gradual diminutions
31 Forty winks
32 Acted like a maverick
34 Rundown
35 Server's question after a drink order
37 “Six days ___ thou labour …”: Exodus
40 Starting line
44 Dress down
46 Ring true
47 John Steinbeck's hometown
49 Absorb
50 Part of a violin quartet?
51 “What's the ___?”
53 Constellation named for an instrument
54 For real
55 Preference for long-legged types, maybe
59 This and that
60 Perfect romantic evening
61 Nathan ___, physicist who collaborated with Einstein on a theory of wormholes
62 Trickles
63 Something made for a dinner, for short
DOWN
1 Take off, as a cap
2 “In your face!”
3 Used for support
4 Vague amount
5 10-digit no.
6 Adornment for a kimono
7 Like some fridges and donuts
8 Decides to leave
9 Testament to human nature?
10 “Fair enough”
11 Add to
12 Look upon with disdain
13 Card letters
15 Colour for un campeon
21 Bracketed qualification
23 Start of a football drive
24 Drum machine creation
25 Islam's Jibril, for one
27 Plant with bugs, maybe
29 Classic poem whose subject is “a black ocean, leaping and wide”
30 Really
33 First name in cosmetics
36 Rae of American Fiction
37 Lead-in to “ops”
38 Dismissal, informally
39 Contends
41 Long break between classes
42 Develop through experimentation
43 Cancels out
45 Language group of Southeast Asia
48 Lots and lots
52 Flag
53 Alt tab?
54 Page layout option: Abbr.
56 Make out
57 Once around
58 Letters on a first responder vehicle