NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Building material for the first little pig
6 Some bank offerings, for short 9 ___ and cheese
12 Swim meet coverage? 13 Nancy who solves mysteries 14 Words said at the altar 15 President’s plane
17 ___-Mex
18 Roadside stops
19 Wrestling for 400-pounders 20 Rod-shaped bacterium 22 Broadway’s “___ Miz”
23 Cry before “You’re out!” 25 Dorm figs.
26 Actor Hemsworth of “The Hunger Games”
27 Material for a tight-fitting glove 30 “Up top!”
35 Landed, as on a branch 36 Actions on the dance floor 37 “Mmm-hmm, mmm-hmm” 38 Conclusion of a close World Series 40 Photographer Adams
41 Flair
42 Brand of sheepskin boots 43 Ecstatic
48 He-sheep
51 Beauty’s partner, with “the” 52 Charged particles
53 Martial art that’s an Olympic sport 54 Big feature on a donkey 55 Miscellany … or a description of the final words in 15-, 23-, 30-, 38and 43-Across
58 Since Jan. 1
59 Word repeated in “It’s ___, all ___!” 60 Tax cheats’ fears 61 “Hel-l-lp!”
62 Suffix with differ 63 Insurance company with a lizard mascot
DOWN
1 Backbone
2 Shore birds
3 Officials crying “Offside” and “Pass interference”
4 Commotion
5 Opposite of bests
6 No-good thief
7 Lair
8 Hon
9 Sometimes good, sometimes bad 10 “Hello” singer of 2015 11 Gumption
12 Take a yacht out
13 Singer Lovato
16 Scoundrel
21 Rubbing the wrong way? 23 “Wailing” instrument
24 Stately shade trees
25 Gives a new account of 27 Annoying feature of an online stream 28 In the manner of
29 Means of tracking workers’ hours 30 www.healthcare.___
31 “Now ___ seen it all!” 32 Restroom sign
33 Flying geese formation
34 Sea slitherer
36 It’s fixed for a prix fixe meal 39 Príncipe’s sister island
40 6 or so, for first graders
42 Release from being caught on a nail, say 43 Adheres to, as a rule 44 Old-fashioned “Awesome!”
45 “I ___ see that coming!”
46 What smells
47 Pigs ___ blanket
48 Like some ancient characters 49 Embellish
50 What rolling stones don’t gather 53 Force-ful characters? 56 Cacophony
57 Like some library books and babies