NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Cruise seat
10 Fastener with a crosspiece 15 Winner of eight Winter Olympics medals in the 2000s 16 Corresponded with 17 Household item usually stored upside down 18 Rapper who was part of N.W.A
19 Class struggle? 20 Couple’s matching pair, informally
22 ___ end up 24 Pledge drive plea 25 Lady bird 26 Desperately in need of approval, in modern slang 28 Fair-hiring inits. 31 Animal with the longest gestation, at nearly two years 33 “Wouldn’t that be nice!”
35 Charming
36 Diner fixture
37 Warm place to chill 38 Supply for sautéing 39 Org. in “Inglourious
Basterds”
40 Under the specified word, in a reference book 42 Shipping or handling 43 His number 33 is
retired by the Lakers 44 Put in play? 45 Part-time newspaper employee
48 Fossey who studied gorillas
50 Stand too close to 51 Pocket of the Mideast 55 Back now after going out?
56 Net sales
57 “Oh, for heaven’s sake!” 58 Entrenched network inside a government
DOWN
1 Cousin of a crow 2 Prefix with -genetic 3 Topic of the mnemonic “Eat An Apple As A Nighttime Snack” 4 Paintings such as “Cat and Bird” and “The Goldfish”
5 Teeth
6 Otter’s den
7 “How clever!”
8 Words of summation 9 Anti-slippage substances
10 With 26-Down, the place of today’s puzzle among all New York Times crosswords 11 Kepler’s contemporary and assistant
12 Muck
13 Distance in astronomy:
Abbr. 14 Shots are taken off of them
21 Like HBO’s
“Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” 22 100+ million-selling band that once held a Guinness record for loudest concert 23 Sol’s counterpart 24 Sup
26 See 10-Down 27 German city on the Elbe 28 Historical transition point
29 Simple skate park tricks
30 Space for a lace
32 S.F. winter setting
34 Lit class reading 36 Stick (onto)
38 Not neat
41 Confirmed being
locked, as a car 43 Birds on New Zealand
dollar coins
44 “To the power of”
symbol
45 Foretell the future 46 Diagram of
possibilities 47 Capacity
48 Like unfinished laundry 49 Some early computers 52 One out of 10
53 A.C.A. part
54 “It’s Always Sunny in
Philadelphia” woman