# CROSSWORD NEW YORK TIMES
ACROSS
1 Group in the original “Ocean’s 11”
8 Classic arcade game with lots of shooting 14 Like Istanbul
16 Emphatic admission 17 First world capital, alphabetically
18 Like clothes buttons, generally
19 Unexciting poker holding
20 2008 Bond girl Kurylenko
22 Bedevil
23 Car once promoted with the line “The thrill starts with the grille” 25 Speaker units
27 Prefix with -gon 28 Nocturnal acronym 29 Strange things
32 Super 8, e.g.
33 Group of female seals 34 Powerhouse in Olympic weightlifting 36 Gradually
39 Animated character who graduated from Dogwarts University 40 The “R” of 28-Across 41 Circular parts 42 Formidable opponents
44 Campaign aid
47 “The Old Curiosity Shop” girl
49 Touched
50 Rail center?
52 Express stress, in a way
54 Gulf of ___
56 Santa ___, Calif.
57 Juiced (up)
59 Jacob’s partner in “A Christmas Carol”
61 City nicknamed “The Old Pueblo”
62 So-so, as support 63 Acropolis figure
64 Spots
DOWN
1 One going against the grain?
2 Poem greeting the dawn
3 “What’s past is past,” e.g.
4 Giant competitor
5 Last name of cosmetics giant Mary Kay
6 “See ya”
7 Bad way to go 8 Buffalo’s home: Abbr. 9 Has-___
10 Source of stone used to build the ancient Egyptian pyramids 11 Flag-waving and such 12 Musical “girl who cain’t say no”
13 Joe known as “The Comeback Kid” 15 Cause of bad dreams, in modern lingo 21 Follower of bon or mon
24 Show immediately preceding another 26 Scuffle
30 For adults only 31 Special-education challenge
33 Bottom line?
35 Tom Sawyer’s half brother
36 Request for food delivery 37 Someone who’s pretty darn good
38 It could be on the tip of your tongue
39 ___ rap
43 More, in México 44 O.C.D. fighter, maybe 45 Put forth
46 Enamors
48 Small slip
51 “___ done now?” 53 Superbright
55 “The Wizard of Oz” farmhand
58 Helicases split it
60 Court divider