NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Note: To mark the 75th anniversary of the New York Times crossword, we are publishing a series of puzzles co-created by famous people who solve the Times crossword and regular Times puzzle contributors that will appear periodically through the year. This collaboration is by Grammy-winning classical pianist Emanuel Ax and Brad Wilber. ACROSS 1 BBQ platter side 5 Two-faced god 10 Shade of blue 14 Low-___
15 “___ the Law” (Steven Seagal picture) 16 Worries for Great Depression banks 17 “Fly ___ spurn thee …”: Shelley 18 Gymnast Strug
19 ___ Dillon, lead role on “Gunsmoke”
20 Classic song with the lyric “Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?” 23 Gold in a pond? 24 Early capital of Alaska 25 Troubling reverie
27 Landscaping tool 29 Flips through,
as TV channels 32 What the keys
are to a pianist? 35 Trattoria order? 36 Hamilton biographer
Chernow and others 37 Suffix with acetyl 38 Negates
39 Just make 41 Holder of encumbered property
42 Andean animal with
expensive wool
43 Mo. of Thomas
Jefferson’s birthday 44 “La Cage aux Folles”
enterprise
48 One side of a
longstanding feud 52 Prefix with classical 54 Like some magicians’
assistants, apparently 56 Feedbag bits 58 Eight-year Clinton
cabinet member 59 Eyelashes
60 1917 dethronee 61 Mystery writer
Nevada ___ 62 Shoelace tip 63 Slippery swimmers 64 Soulful Redding
65 ___ Island Red
(fowl type)
DOWN
1 Comes (from)
2 One who was wished a long life, in old French cheers
3 F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
“Two for ___”
4 Drink often garnished
with a cherry 5 Hunky-dory
6 Scottish city that lent its name to a cattle breed 7 Best Picture loser to “Kramer vs. Kramer” 8 Tanning element,
informally
9 It’s measured by the Richter scale 10 What a radius is part of 11 Log painted deceptively to look like a cannon 12 “Do ___ others …” 13 Italian wine town 21 Cry before curtsying or taking a bow 22 Tipples circumspectly 26 Exercise-induced
euphoria
28 Famously reclusive
Hollywood legend 30 “___ and Forget” (classic humor piece by James Thurber) 31 Autograph collector’s enclosure, for short 32 Earlier: Abbr. 33 Shape-shifter of
Norse mythology 34 Not statistically based,
as evidence 35 Nyasaland, today 40 Some, in Seville 45 Worry about,
informally
46 Artist ___ de Toulouse-Lautrec 47 They could be represented by a cartoonist’s wavy lines 49 Salutation among Winnie-the-Pooh and friends
50 Words before
“so sue me”
51 ___ worse than death 52 Word that can follow the ends of 20- and 54-Across and 4and 26-Down 53 What pros handle things with 55 Nascar Hall of Fame locale: Abbr. 57 Some SAT takers: Abbr.