Ottawa Citizen

N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

- ERIK AGARD / WILL SHORTZ

ACROSS 1 Say “Yeah, I can make it,” say 5 [Ask me what’s wrong] 9 Pitt of “The Big Short” 13 Scannable symbols on store items, for short 14 2017 Best Play winner 15 Mark’s replacemen­t 16 Will Smith’s co-star in 1995’s “Bad Boys” 19 Some airport times: Abbr. 20 Like most clown wigs 21 Last word of a fairy tale 22 Hon, modernstyl­e 23 Part of a phone plan 24 Two-legged stands 25 Tantrum 26 Madrid’s country, on Olympic scoreboard­s 27 ___ fides 28 Like the Nikkei and Hang Seng indexes 30 It uses clicks in lieu of paddles 32 Decorates with some rolls, for short 35 There are two, as the expression goes, in each of 16- and 55-Across 36 Part of a golf cup 37 There’s one, as the expression goes, in 5and 27-Down 39 “The Matrix” hero 40 ___ Xtra (soda) 41 Traffic cone 42 Sports category prefix 44 “Help me, ___-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope” 46 Source of Manchego cheese 47 Cafe 50 Band whose name sounds like a vegetable 51 Fish ladder site 52 Remove ID from, as a Facebook picture 53 Look stunned 54 Lots of 55 Physicist who won a 2009 Presidenti­al Medal of Freedom 58 Nursery item 59 One way to stand 60 First word of a fairy tale 61 Stripe 62 Half of a two-volume directory 63 Collection of highlights or bloopers

DOWN 1 Popular ice cream flavor 2 Little extra poundage 3 Betamaxes, e.g. 4 S.F. winter clock setting 5 Line of Japanese smartphone­s 6 Where one might be marooned 7 Content 8 Question asked in befuddleme­nt 9 Part of a Whopper 10 Approach quickly 11 Like a rainbow 12 Movers and shakers 17 13th, maybe 18 It often occurs following a car wash, seemingly 19 Classic Britcom 23 Hamiltons 24 “Whew!” 27 Tropical houseplant 29 Animal lovers’ program 31 Chest protector 33 Performanc­e that requires a lot of upper body strength 34 Figure whose wings melt in the sun 37 Prepare to pin the tail on the donkey, say 38 Decepticon­s, in the Transforme­rs universe 40 Golf ___ 43 Frustrated exclamatio­n 45 Be in developmen­t 47 Unsuccessf­ul draft picks, in sports lingo 48 Opening 49 Have the tiller 50 “The Two Fridas” artist 53 Little annoyance 54 “You can’t have that!” 56 Second letter before iota 57 Two-nation peninsula: Abbr.

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