NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Barb from the mouth
9 Tedious work
14 Captain of the mathletes, stereotypically 16 Talking points?
17 Cavernous opening
18 Before: Fr.
19 Be expressive, say
20 Singer with the 2014 hit “Chandelier” 21 Queen or king maker
22 Operate on with a beam
23 Prefix with marathon
25 Meaningful
26 Dir. from Duluth, Minn., to Madison, Wis. 27 You won’t see them again
29 Weekly show filmed in Studio 8H, for
short
30 Pioneer in graph theory
31 Covered porch
33 Midriff-revealing wear
36 “Don’t mind me!”
37 It’s a series of movements
38 What four quarters make
39 Some online comments, for short 40 Primary source of revenue for Facebook 42 Chocolate ___
45 “After you, ___”
47 People
48 Nymph who divulged Jupiter’s affair with
Juturna, in Ovid
49 Derive
51 PIN point
52 Sink
53 Quartz type
54 Certain library fund-raiser
56 Numbskull
57 Reassure
58 Numbskull
59 Prison guard in the Harry Potter
books
DOWN
1 They can be everything
2 Kids : goats :: crias : ___
3 Buck
4 What you’re usually advised not to wear to someone’s wedding 5 Tennis player Caroline Wozniacki or actress Brigitte Nielsen 6 Oscar-winning Lee
7 You might not get it during a power nap 8 Brutus, e.g.
9 College figs.
10 Went all over
11 “My suspicion is …” 12 Company whose name is said to mean “Leave luck to heaven”
13 Purchase for a smartphone
15 Pluto, e.g.
23 Dumps
24 Many ski lodges
27 Word with sight or control
28 Some Indian wear
30 Org. with the Office of Land and
Emergency Management
32 One of a couple, say
33 First of three spinoffs in an acclaimed TV
franchise
34 Pluto, e.g.
35 Where you might incur charges overseas 36 Pen pal?
38 Like mushrooms and shrimp, often 41 Really takes off
42 Attack
43 Melodic passage
44 Campaign rally decoration
46 “I’m with you”
48 Get dark
50 It may be high for a penthouse
52 Lessen
55 Moat feature