Montreal Gazette

NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

- EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ

ACROSS

1 Parts missing from the Venus de Milo 5 Ancient Greek market

10 What hairy dogs do in the spring 14 Boyfriend

15 Toilet paper layers, e.g.

16 Architect Saarinen

17 Complain querulousl­y

18 *Monster outsmarted by Odysseus 20 Drivers doing 90, say

22 With mouth wide open

23 Indian queen

24 Tin lizzies

26 *Rat Pack member who sang and danced

30 Parts with irises

31 Actor Morales of “La Bamba”

32 See 39-Across

35 Dawn, to Donne

36 Like clothes in the hamper 38 Servant in “Young Frankenste­in” 39 With 32-Across, what the answers to the starred clues each have

40 Brief moments, briefly

41 Frighten

42 *Black face card whose face is seen in profile

45 Indy or Daytona

48 What two fives are change for 49 Cancel at Cape Canaveral

50 “Star Wars Episode IV” subtitle 54 *Comic character on a gum wrapper 57 Satanic

58 Part of a list with bullets

59 Scam

60 Swimmers’ units

61 Hawaiian goose

62 “Two mints in one” sloganeer

63 Nolo contendere, e.g.

DOWN

1 Things learned in “The Alphabet Song” 2 Harvest 3 Stallion’s mate

4 Hero who’s neither a bird nor a plane 5 Tack on

6 Steinem who co-founded Ms. magazine

7 Classic paintings

8 Spanish king

9 Biter of Cleopatra

10 Folk legend Pete 11 Blood-related

12 Blow, as a volcano

13 Amounts in a hypodermic needle 19 Pilgrim to Mecca

21 February has the fewest of them 24 Aerosol spray

25 Start of “The Star-Spangled Banner”

26 Sport originally part of a Shinto ritual 27 Shakespear­e’s stream

28 Parisian mother

29 Left page in a book

32 “Heavens to Betsy!”

33 Bygone times

34 “___ Tú” (1974 song)

36 Ten: Prefix

37 Highly off-putting

38 “Allow me”

40 Handled, as a task

41 Blow, as from a volcano

42 Saint known for translatin­g the Bible into Latin

43 Spread, as people in a search party 44 The Lone Ranger’s Silver and others 45 Former Israeli P.M. Yitzhak 46 Lessen

47 Cheat

50 “When it’s ___” (answer to an old riddle) 51 Squished circle

52 Prop for Sherlock Holmes 53 Two-time Oscar-nominated actress Lanchester

55 The Colonel’s restaurant

56 “I am, you ___, he is”

 ?? PUZZLE BY: JOHN R. O’BRIEN ?? no. 0312
PUZZLE BY: JOHN R. O’BRIEN no. 0312

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