NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Cloths used to
collect dust
5 ___ elephant
10 Habitat for a trout 14 Org. with a Grand Esteemed Loyal Knight 15 Creation from a kit 17 Part of Iran that can get quite hot 19 Novelist Wilson who wrote “The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit” 20 Popular early 2000s R&B artist
21 Aziz of “Observe and Report”
23 Org. to call for a jump-start 26 German dissent 27 Suddenly showed
interest
30 Shape for a locket 31 Scent
32 Israeli region that
includes Eilat
34 Band engagement 35 2008 Olympic men’s tennis gold medalist 40 Air passenger’s request 42 Bull’s-eye, for Target 43 Didn’t speak of, as
a touchy subject 48 Game similar
to baccarat
49 Health resort 50 Catches in a net 51 Chicago airport 53 Rimes with the 2002 hit “Can’t Fight the Moonlight” 54 “Finally, though as
important …” 60 Supports for a lower joint
61 ___ qua non (essential element) 62 Psychoanalysis appt. 63 “Like ___, all tears”:
Hamlet
64 Fashion magazine that can be read from back to front?
DOWN
1 “Notorious ___” (best seller about a member of the Supreme Court) 2 First full month of D.S.T. 3 Attends without
an escort
4 Like something that
can be closed tight 5 Lash out at
6 Digitize, as a document 7 Suffix with president 8 No. of concern
in a cockpit
9 Nascar Hall-of-Famer Jarrett 10 Shedding, as weight
11 “The Story of ___” (1975 film by Truffaut) 12 “The Muppet Show” host
13 Singer John who was born Reginald Dwight 16 Sitcom cook who said “Stow it!” 18 Matador’s opponent 21 “Chacun ___ goût” 22 Basilica part 23 Ballplayer Rich who started and ended his 15-year career as a Giant 24 Farthest point in an orbit
25 Pitcher’s asset 28 Retouches after a
fly ball is caught 29 McKellen of
“The Hobbit” 33 Distillery sight 36 Soprano Licia who performed hundreds of times at the Met 37 Something in a simile that’s dead beyond doubt
38 Fever fit
39 Quite a bit
41 Figs. on a StanfordBinet test
43 Rabbi Meir who served
in the Knesset
44 Gets the lead out? 45 Doors, in Brest 46 African pest
47 Fussy to a fault
48 Final word in a Porky Pig short 52 Tidal retreat 53 Leopold’s 1924 co-defendant 55 Caterer’s coffeepot 56 Red snapper, at a
sushi restaurant
57 Cpl. or sgt.
58 Fall ’75 TV debut
59 End of each word in 17-, 27-, 43- and 54-Across — as well as every clue (and that’s a fact!)