NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Ride
5 Trattoria offering
10 Effervescence
14 Natural pain reliever
15 West Indian sorcery
16 Dirt pie ingredient
17 Amorphous mass
18 5-Across unit
19 Days long gone
20 Inept sorts
22 One low on dough
24 Aziz of Netflix’s “Master of None”
25 Loft addition
26 Bush animal, for short
27 “Still, after all this time …”
31 Film speed letters
32 Cross to bear
34 Somewhat icy
35 What old records and happy-go-lucky people may do 36 Fore-and-aft-rigged vessel 38 Stoppage
39 Geoffrey of fashion
40 “Sup?”
43 Meritorious
45 Picked up on
48 Subject of the 2008 biography “Woman of the House”
49 Annual event that includes snocross and ski superpipe
51 Number two
52 Rock band whose name is suggested by the first row of this puzzle
56 “The Burning Giraffe” artist
57 ___ school
58 Martial art whose name means, literally, “sword way”
59 Sophocles tragedy
60 Best, but barely
61 Language from which “kayak” comes 62 Paint swatch selection 63 Go-getter 64 Pours on the love
65 “The Garden of ___” (Oscar Wilde poem)
DOWN
1 Apocalyptic event predicted in Norse mythology
2 Like a shampoo/conditioner 3 Expands one’s view, in a way 4 Referee, in slang
5 Pink, for one
6 Sacred symbol of ancient Egypt 7 The Hudson’s Tappan ___ Bridge 8 Galifianakis of “The Hangover” 9 Leading
10 Place for an umbrella stand 11 Heavyweight champion who defeated “Bonecrusher” Smith
12 Gets closer and closer 13 Old-fashioned image projector 21 Fractions of a krona
23 Word
28 “Beowulf,” essentially
29 Eating with one’s elbows on the table, e.g.
30 Meeting places
33 “Peanuts” boy
35 Makes plans to tie the knot 37 Intense attraction, with “the” 39 Google alternative
41 Tiny brain?
42 Vamps
43 Odd duck
44 What “education is the best provision for,” per Aristotle
46 Key for “Spring” in Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons”
47 Roosevelt predecessor? 48 Summoned
50 Yahtzee scoresheet row 53 Founder of Stoicism 54 Hardware bit
55 Comics character who once, surprisingly, solved a sudoku puzzle