NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 “And there you have it!”
9 Small ammo
15 1999 prequel that grossed over a billion dollars, familiarly 16 Obscure knowledge 17 Iran-contra business
18 Chucks
19 Cut
20 Things to 19-Across
22 Helps in a way one shouldn’t 23 Twerps
25 “If I were a betting person, I’d say …” 27 Play with strings
29 Tries to win
30 Hoedown participant
31 Inverse function in trigonometry 33 Things non-PC people buy? 34 Symbol for a member of Anonymous 37 Things often found by the dessert table
38 Dated women?
39 Down
40 It changes one’s perspective
41 Buck ___, first African-American coach in Major League Baseball
44 Time off for an N.F.L. team
46 One letter of “NATO” in the
NATO alphabet
48 Locale for much of “The Da Vinci Code” 49 Arabic name that sounds like a reply of agreement
53 Rocker Gramm of Foreigner 54 Ominous parting words 56 “Today” co-host beginning in 2007 58 Book of selected texts 59 Frequent locale in the comic strip “Andy Capp”
60 Things hashed and mashed, informally 61 Places for nightstands
DOWN
1 Lintels, e.g. 2 Blacksmiths’ wear 3 Chucklehead 4 Chucklehead
5 Catch a wave, in a way 6 Conception
7 About
8 Decorate elegantly 9 “Enough of this!” 10 Prepares, in a way, as chicken
11 Sources of labor pains? 12 Really enjoy oneself
13 Kind of mind
14 Curtain decorations 21 Longhorn rival
24 Appeals to a higher authority? 26 Playground retort
28 Big name in digital security 29 User-editable internet pages 32 High-class
33 High points
34 Where the rules are unclear 35 Be malnourished
36 Some holiday decorations 37 Plug-in point
40 ___ ape (gibbon)
42 Digital storage service
43 Who wrote “He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened” 45 “Salomé” playwright
47 Easily fooled sorts 50 “Grand, ungodly, godlike man,” in literature
51 Exclusive
52 No longer anonymous, for short 55 Hosp. parts
57 Butterfly ___ (fish)