Montreal Gazette

NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

- EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ PUZZLE BY: ZHOUQIN BURNIKEL NO. 0616

ACROSS

1 Alternativ­es to olives

7 Went for a run

13 Spanish spread

14 “Told ya!”

15 More affected

16 Drill setting

17 Part of many arena names: Abbr. 18 “Sign me up!”

20 Situation with no up side 21 Evidence of a hard landing

23 Not bogus

24 Michael who directed the 2015 film “Blackhat”

25 “That makes two of us” 27 Spooky grp.?

28 Like some sent documents 29 Moving between male and female 32 Sore helper

33 Old baseball mascot with a “C” on his cap

35 Toaster components

38 Major beef source

41 Blue

42 Big name in 1990s hip-hop

44 Like white panthers 45 Co-Nobelist with Yitzhak and Shimon 47 2002 Grammy nominee John 48 Popular nail polish brand 49 School once headed by Mies van der Rohe

51 21st in a series of 24 52 Neighbor de Ibiza

54 Add subtly

56 Used up

57 “Hel-l-lp!”

58 Makeup problems

59 Past the point of caring

DOWN

1 Swift writings

2 It has four tusks

3 Shows disregard for privacy 4 Discovery magazine subj. 5 Unidentifi­ed gossip source, often 6 French philosophe­r who wrote “Reflection­s on Violence”

7 Greet with disdain

8 Abbr. before a colon and a name 9 Potent pot component, for short 10 Impetus for a colonial “party” 11 Wolverine’s cousin

12 Hinge

14 Instagram and such

16 Major uncertaint­y

19 Classified key to success 22 Onetime host with 11 Daytime Emmys 24 Fared

26 Just sits

28 Who’s there

30 Green on the silver screen

31 Party server

34 “Always one of a kind” sloganeer 36 One of a White House couple until 2017

37 Dish often garnished with white radish

38 Salivation stimuli 39 Flamethrow­er option 40 Radiator protector

43 Big name in disposable tableware 45 Crocheter’s collection

46 Rene of “Nightcrawl­er” 49 Vulgarian

50 Bulgarian, e.g.

53 Big Apple airport code

55 “___ changed”

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