NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 World capital where the language Ga is spoken
6 Dish often topped with goat cheese and cranberries
15 Cut scene?
16 Yanqui
17 Food for a brown bear
18 “Understood”
19 Reprimand to the overly speedy
21 First name at Springfield Elementary 22 End of many a co. name
23 Abbr. of interest
26 A male one is a jack
28 Machine shop essential
31 Peter preceder, in a phonetic alphabet 32 “Well, of course!”
33 Held eye contact for too long, say 36 Festival observed every October 31 to
November 2
38 February honoree
39 Something to do for peace
40 It’s named for the Norse god of war:
Abbr.
41 Head overseas
42 Big purchaser of scanners, in brief 43 Black ___
44 Part of NATO: Abbr.
46 Red states, once
49 One meaning of a raised index finger 54 Completely
58 Name derived from the Greek for “holy” 59 Sending to the cloud, e.g.
60 Sound name
61 Figureheads?
62 Question from someone waving across a
crowded room
DOWN
1 Source of some bubbles 2 Amazon icon
3 Narrow escapes
4 “Row, Row, Row Your Boat,” for one 5 Composer Bruckner
6 ___ Lawson, W.N.B.A. star-turned-coach for the Boston Celtics
7 “___ Gitano,” Spanish-language hit for Beyoncé and Alejandro Fernández 8 Bound to follow
9 Bring into existence 10 Brought into existence
11 Word often followed by a Roman numeral
12 ___-di-dah
13 Santa ___
14 Indicator of a note’s duration, on a
score
20 “Hot”thing
23 Slightly off
24 Not watertight
25 Port Sudan is on it
26 Expands
27 Get ready for action
29 “????? ”
30 Timor-___ (U.N. member since 2002) 31 Shortened again
33 Brooks, for example
34 Auto correction
35 Mini
37 Some A.B.A. members
44 Eight-related
45 R, in a postal abbreviation
47 Makes red in the face?
48 “By the way,” e.g.
50 It gets a licking
51 Bar supply
52 Appear
53 Renaissance family name 54 Generator’s output
55 Water monitor, for short
56 ___-weekly
57 Quote from Homer