NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Sound from a pound 4 Discontinued Swedish

cars

9 Snapshot

14 ___ Zedong

15 ___ Vanilli, group with three #1 hits in 1989 16 Open the door for 17 Be sick 18 Drip-dry fabric 19 Preferred seat request in an airplane

20 Not dead yet! 23 Substituted (for) 24 Laceless shoe fastener 28 Horror director Craven 29 Warm winter wear 31 Baseball’s Gehrig 32 Dilutes

36 ___ ex machina 37 Listens to

38 Sí : Spain :: ___ : France 39 “Fee-fi-fo-fum” sayer 40 Objectives

41 Pick up dry cleaning, go

to the post office, etc. 43 ___ v. Wade

44 Author Vonnegut 45 Snakelike fish 46 Avenging spirits

of Greek myth

48 With possibly even direr consequences 52 “What is life?,” “Why are we here?,” etc. 55 Bricklayer, e.g. 58 Slight advantage 59 Soph. and jr. 60 Bathroom unit

61 Be of ___ (avail) 62 Fannie ___ (mortgage company) 63 Full of the latest 64 Glossy finish 65 Midlength records, for short

DOWN

1 Stockpile

2 Bonnie who sang “I Can’t Make

You Love Me”

3 First ___

(Shakespeare volume) 4 Burns slowly 5 Simulated smooch 6 Like a poker player who’s either very confident or really bluffing 7 Like-minded voting group

8 Swim’s alternative 9 Mercury or Mars 10 Katherine of

“27 Dresses” 11 Settlers of tied games, for short 12 Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop ___ You Get Enough” 13 Tip jar bill

21 Brings to half-mast

22 ___ the Terrible 25 Fresh from the laundry

26 Circular

27 Ejects

29 Go “1, 2, 3, 4 …” 30 Injury, in totspeak 32 Where ships dock 33 “Wheel of Fortune”

purchases

34 Circus whip-cracker 35 Gloomy 36 Conversation 39 Enjoyed frequently

as a child

41 Trick

42 Send on a detour, say 44 With enthusiasm 47 Personal heroes 48 “Well, shucks!”

49 What the first, second and fifth lines in a limerick do 50 Pocketbook part 51 Slalom curves

53 +

54 Pianist/radio host John 55 AOL alternative 56 Breakfasted or lunched 57 Wise old saying … like the first words of 20-, 32-, 41- and 52-Across