NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Wanderer’s refuge
6 1/8 of a standard stick of butter: Abbr.
10 Part of the eye
14 Big shot?
16 Some deer
17 Words in hide-and-seek 18 Fleece
19 Rafael Nadal’s country, in the Olympics
20 What vines do
21 Owner of Bloomingdale’s
22 British philanthropist Henry
23 How John Glenn orbited the earth in 1962
25 Insurance department
28 Expert sleuth
31 Wanders
32 Turn a blind eye 33 “Gracious!”
34 Their pockets aren’t deep 35 “Dominant”
thing
36 “It wasn’t my fault” 38 What “de rien” might
be a response to 39 Precisely
40 Ted with a cameo
in the movie “Ted” 41 Instruction given through a rolled-down window
42 Cross
43 Singer Khan
45 Creaky part of a house
47 Where to stick a toothpick
50 Front part of a saddle
51 Something relatively complicated?
53 Off-the-shoulders hairstyle
54 At all
55 Certain competition
56 “If someone ___ careful …”
57 Seriously bother
DOWN
1 “Tom Thumb” antagonist
2 Father of Deimos and Phobos
3 Product sold in bars 4 OB/GYN offering 5 Aids for snoops 6 A crowd, so to speak 7 Shade of white
8 Sign indicating a sign 9 Bettor’s winnings 10 Often-repeated bit of modern folklore 11 Some commercial work
12 Hard to grasp, say 13 Sets, as a price
15 Things on the back of a computer
21 ___ reflex, infant’s instinctual spreading of the arms
22 Wed
24 Part of the eye
25 Believe it!
26 Enter one’s password, maybe
27 Ultramodern
28 Went after
29 Festive mayo day 30 Political commentator Ezra
32 Game with lots of instructions
34 Nail job, for short
37 With 49-Down, early tryout
38 John Updike novel subtitled “A Romance” 40 Dining adornment 42 Light
43 Bud
44 Word before and after against
46 Government sleuth, quaintly
47 Cookout item, for short 48 Entertainer and civil rights activist Horne 49 See 37-Down
51 Org. in “The X-files”
52 It’s in the bag