NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Beach makeup 5 Japanese P.M.
Shinzo ___
8 Heads of families 13 Mocker of Hamlet’s “unmanly grief” 15 Throw in the direction of 16 On the table 18 Controversial food preservative, for short 19 That’s a moray! 20 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 21 Like the baseball of the New Orleans
Baby Cakes
22 D as in dates?
24 “I give up”
29 Cozy places?
32 Emmy- and Oscarwinning Melissa 33 Denoting a 3” nail, so-called from its original cost 34 “Doggone it!”
37 Like family-friendly films 38 Women’s rights
activist Mott
40 Nail
41 “You’re really testing my
patience right now …” 42 Lead singer of Coldplay, once married to Gwyneth Paltrow 46 Rhimes who created “Grey’s Anatomy” and“Scandal”
47 Nail
50 Refrain syllables
53 Item under a fairy tale princess’ mattress 56 Impersonal “you” 57 Driving test challenge … or a hint to this puzzle’s circled letters
60 Web issues
61 Chin stroker’s comment 62 Couples
63 Music purchases of the 1990s and early 2000s 64 First in line
DOWN
1 Kind of gear for a diver
2 Top dog
3 Pact inveighed against by Trump 4 Couple 5 Congressional staffer 6 Uses as a foundation 7 Start of something? 8 Secant’s reciprocal 9 Attack 10 Trident-shaped letters
11 Early tribe met by Lewis and Clark 12 Some heirs 14 Eazy-E collaborator, informally
15 Dutch export 17 Paintball gear, familiarly 23 “Heavens!”
24 Plenty angry 25 Chinese secret society 26 Send
27 Take effect
28 Slugger Sammy 29 Head of a classroom,
in slang
30 Put in
31 Gibbon, e.g.
33 ___ II (Gillette razor) 34 It starts when an
overture’s over 35 Carolina ___ (state bird) 36 Power (up)
39 Not yet used
41 Mother of Perseus 43 Singapore, e.g. 44 Sources of oil 45 Gangsters’ gals 47 Statistical distractions 48 Take without asking 49 Sire
50 Hit 100, say
51 Blurred
52 Gershwin’s
“Summertime,” e.g. 54 Grub
55 Branch
58 Business letters? 59 He’s a doll