NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Catchphrase on “The Simpsons”
10 Not so hot
14 Love poet of old
15 Stage honor
16 Experts in determining the exact shape
and size of the earth
17 Court seat
18 Crisp, picturewise
19 Place name in Manhattan
21 CARE, e.g., for short
22 Got
25 Satisfied the munchies
27 Digital identifiers
30 Startled response to “Eek, a mouse!” 31 Avalanche
34 Parched
35 Common activity in couples therapy 38 Off the ___
39 Like presidents with Bibles, maybe 40 Discontinued grocery chain that was
once the U.S.’S largest retailer 42 Snuggles
45 Hearty har-hars
48 Like stadiums
50 Counter offer, for short?
51 Goes “Grrrr”
54 “Kiss Me ___ the Phone” (2009 #3 hit) 55 Spanish opposite of odio
57 “Little Rhody,” with “the”
60 ___ lives
61 Classic Buster Keaton film set in Civil
War times
62 Cut
63 Some terms set by consenting partners
DOWN
1 Childish denial 2 Attention getter 3 Someone to snuggle with
4 Fiver
5 Some campus V.I.P.S
6 ___ Barnes, W.n.i.t.-winning basketball
coach
7 Spanish ___
8 Ashtray fill
9 Burning issue
10 Swarm
11 Many workers on Wall Street,
informally
12 Slips and such
13 Cracked, in a way
14 Weekend warrior’s cry
20 Uncut
23 Requests made to latecomers, in brief 24 Game in which the object is to end with
zero points
26 Psst! Don’t pass it on!
28 Burgeoned
29 Old English dialect
32 “An Officer and a Gentleman” star, 1982 33 German philosopher Bloch
35 Hiker’s bagful
36 Annoying thing to hear in a movie
theater
37 Queens’s ___ Field
38 Dolce’s partner in fashion
41 One parent of a mixed-breed “poxer” 43 German leader after Adenauer 44 Tempur-pedic alternatives
46 Gut feelings?
47 Actor/comedian ___ Baron Cohen 49 Face-off
52 Shipwreck site, maybe
53 Saltimbocca ingredient
56 Strawberry, raspberry or cherry 58 Inside the box?
59 ___-Cat