NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Note: To mark the 75th anniversary of the New York Times crossword, we are publishing a series of puzzles co-created by famous people who solve the Times crossword and regular Times puzzle contributors that will appear periodically through the year. This collaboration is by Grammy-winning classical pianist Emanuel Ax and Brad Wilber.
ACROSS
1 BBQ platter side
5 Two-faced god
10 Shade of blue
14 Low-___
15 “___ the Law” (Steven Seagal picture) 16 Worries for Great Depression banks 17 “Fly ___ spurn thee …”: Shelley 18 Gymnast Strug
19 ___ Dillon, lead role on “Gunsmoke” 20 Classic song with the lyric “Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?” 23 Gold in a pond?
24 Early capital of Alaska 25 Troubling reverie 27 Landscaping tool
29 Flips through, as TV channels 32 What the keys are to a pianist? 35 Trattoria order?
36 Hamilton biographer Chernow and others
37 Suffix with acetyl
38 Negates
39 Just make
41 Holder of encumbered property 42 Andean animal with expensive wool 43 Mo. of Thomas Jefferson’s birthday 44 “La Cage aux Folles” enterprise 48 One side of a longstanding feud 52 Prefix with classical
54 Like some magicians’ assistants, apparently
56 Feedbag bits
58 Eight-year Clinton cabinet member 59 Eyelashes
60 1917 dethronee
61 Mystery writer Nevada ___ 62 Shoelace tip 63 Slippery swimmers 64 Soulful Redding
65 ___ Island Red (fowl type)
DOWN
1 Comes (from)
2 One who was wished a long life, in old
French cheers
3 F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Two for ___” 4 Drink often garnished with a cherry 5 Hunky-dory
6 Scottish city that lent its name to a
cattle breed
7 Best Picture loser to “Kramer vs.
Kramer”
8 Tanning element, informally
9 It’s measured by the Richter scale 10 What a radius is part of
11 Log painted deceptively to look like a
cannon
12 “Do ___ others …”
13 Italian wine town
21 Cry before curtsying or taking a bow 22 Tipples circumspectly 26 Exercise-induced euphoria
28 Famously reclusive Hollywood legend 30 “___ and Forget” (classic humor piece
by James Thurber)
31 Autograph collector’s enclosure, for
short
32 Earlier: Abbr.
33 Shape-shifter of Norse mythology 34 Not statistically based, as evidence 35 Nyasaland, today
40 Some, in Seville
45 Worry about, informally
46 Artist ___ de Toulouse-Lautrec
47 They could be represented by a cartoonist’s wavy lines 49 Salutation among Winnie-the-Pooh and friends
50 Words before “so sue me”
51 ___ worse than death
52 Word that can follow the ends of 20and 54-Across and 4- and 26-Down 53 What pros handle things with 55 Nascar Hall of Fame locale: Abbr. 57 Some SAT takers: Abbr.