new york times crossword

ACROSS

1 “And there you have it!” 9 Small ammo

15 1999 prequel that grossed over a billion dollars, familiarly 16 Obscure knowledge 17 Iran-contra business 18 Chucks

19 Cut

20 Things to 19-Across 22 Helps in a way

one shouldn’t 23 Twerps

25 “If I were a betting

person, I’d say …” 27 Play with strings 29 Tries to win 30 Hoedown

participant

31 Inverse function

in trigonometry 33 Things non-PC

people buy?

34 Symbol for a member

of Anonymous 37 Things often found

by the dessert table 38 Dated women? 39 Down

40 It changes one’s

perspective

41 Buck ___, first AfricanAmerican coach in Major League Baseball 44 Time off for an

N.F.L. team

46 One letter of “NATO” in

the NATO alphabet 48 Locale for much of

“The Da Vinci Code” 49 Arabic name that sounds like a reply of agreement 53 Rocker Gramm of Foreigner 54 Ominous parting words 56 “Today” co-host beginning in 2007 58 Book of selected texts 59 Frequent locale in the comic strip “Andy Capp”

60 Things hashed and mashed, informally 61 Places for nightstands

DOWN

1 Lintels, e.g. 2 Blacksmiths’ wear 3 Chucklehead 4 Chucklehead

5 Catch a wave, in a way 6 Conception

7 About

8 Decorate elegantly 9 “Enough of this!” 10 Prepares, in a way, as chicken 11 Sources of labor pains? 12 Really enjoy oneself 13 Kind of mind 14 Curtain decorations 21 Longhorn rival 24 Appeals to a higher authority? 26 Playground retort 28 Big name in digital security 29 User-editable internet

pages

32 High-class

33 High points

34 Where the rules

are unclear

35 Be malnourished 36 Some holiday

decorations

37 Plug-in point

40 ___ ape (gibbon) 42 Digital storage service 43 Who wrote “He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened” 45 “Salomé” playwright 47 Easily fooled sorts 50 “Grand, ungodly, godlike man,” in literature 51 Exclusive

52 No longer anonymous, for short

55 Hosp. parts 57 Butterfly ___ (fish)