NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Rio dance

6 Not dull 11 Body-scanning grp. 14 Corners

15 Places to hang holiday lights 16 Poetic contraction 17 Audibly appalled 18 Person who’s all pretense

19 Give the O.K. 20 Vacillates, as a plumber?

23 Caps Lock, e.g. 24 Dazzle 25 Recipient of a ticker-tape parade, maybe 26 Exhausted, as a plumber?

31 Black ball

34 Choice for a par 5 hole, often 35 Homer’s father 36 High-airfare season, for short

37 Place across the back of a chair, perhaps 39 Loafing around 40 Lang. course 41 Whiskey drink 42 Comes up short, say 43 Wasted, to a plumber? 47 Athos, Porthos and Aramis, e.g. 48 Type

49 Broadway’s “Mamma ___!” 52 Anxiety, to a plumber? 57 Rabid fan

58 Outlook function 59 Give the O.K.

60 “___ You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” 61 Major river starting in SE Switzerland 62 Actor Buddy of “The Beverly Hillbillies” 63 Part of r.p.m. 64 Furniture store display 65 How sloppy kissers kiss

DOWN

1 “Game of Thrones” family name 2 Squabble

3 Nasty person

4 Mrs. Truman

5 It’s used to pave the way

6 The deadly sins, e.g. 7 [LOL]

8 Makeup maker 9 Tear to pieces 10 Gung-ho

11 Booths are set up in them 12 Have some trouble focusing 13 Part of MoMA 21 Letter carrier at Hogwarts 22 Voluminous ref. work 26 Sounds made during

medical checkups 27 Espy or Emmy

28 ___ psychology 29 “Annabel Lee” poet 30 Aids for football kickers 31 Marked (out) 32 “Maybe ask

someone else”

33 One doing sketch work? 37 Exclamation from Homer

38 Lament

39 Atom in any salt 41 Steamship workers 42 Used, although

one can hardly tell 44 20th-century author

famous for her journals 45 Some armory contents 46 Sierra Nevada, for one 49 In the ___ of 50 Contents of a presidential briefing 51 Having one’s wisdom teeth pulled, e.g. 53 Initialism whose third initial often isn’t true 54 Babe in the woods 55 Actress Lollobrigida 56 Brain part

57 Brief siesta