NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Worthless mounds 9 Bay Area campus, in brief

13 Reliable source of income 15 Impossible chess ending with a king and knight versus a lone king

16 Slimy outdoor pest 18 “Save yourself!,” e.g. 19 Didn’t get takeout 20 At the apex of

22 “___ Misérables” 23 Unwind

24 Item in the lingerie department

27 Not allowing sales of alcohol 28 Aquamarine or

amethyst

29 Had as a customer 30 Determined to

accomplish

32 Away from the office,

say

33 Classic 1976 Ramones song that begins “Hey! Ho! Let’s go!”

37 Wade noisily

38 French girlfriends 39 Liane ___, longtime NPR host 41 “Moreover …” 42 Inexperienced 45 Diamond-patterned footwear

48 ___-tiller

49 “I’ve seen better” 50 Campus V.I.P.

51 U.S. base in Cuba, informally

52 Kick (out) 54 Improvised

57 Tempt

58 Safely run down the clock, in football 59 Mediterranean volcano 60 Road-scraping custom car

DOWN

1 Home of the Norse

gods

2 Granite ___ (New

Hampshire resident) 3 Religious unorthodoxy 4 Lost all patience

5 Old Testament

paradise

6 “The Fountainhead”

author Rand

7 Comfy sleepwear 8 Kind of renewable

energy

9 Baseball boobird’s target, often 10 Hailed from afar 11 Hardy work shoe feature 12 Enjoy heartily, as a banquet 14 Keister

17 “There ___ the neighborhood” 21 Like antlers and pitchforks

24 Jazzman Stan

25 Wild way to run 26 Amorphous shapes 28 Entreaty to Lassie 30 Actress Spacek 31 Second Amendment

advocacy grp. 33 Announce loudly 34 University of Texas

athlete

35 Apple desktop 36 Text-displaying technology on Kindles 37 Walk with an awkward gait

40 Wolfe of crime fiction 42 Roly-poly 43 Withdrawal charge 44 Low-frequency stereo

component

46 Velvety

47 Butcher’s scraps 48 Lake of daytime TV 51 Flippers, scuba tank, etc., for a diver 53 Nonalcoholic brew 55 Boxing decision, for short

56 Take an ax to