NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Means of

supervision? 9 Co-winner of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize

15 Kisses and

hugs

16 “I can ___”

17 What can strike up a tune?

19 Tiny bit of

concern

20 Saint associated with the Russian alphabet

21 ___ jure (by the law itself: Lat.)

24 Discover

fortuitously 26 Rail

construction 29 “Buzz off!” 30 Florida city in the middle of “horse country”

31 Soft shade 32 Pioneer in instant messaging 33 Fire (up)

34 Watch from the shadows, say

35 Industrial

support

37 Easy

mark

39 As it

happens

40 Critical

41 Silent ___

42 Small

grouse

43 Refreshers 44 Unlike

filibusters 47 Shelter from a storm, perhaps 48 Negotiation site that led to the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize

49 Appropriate 50 Draft

teammates? 51 Mythological

lyrist

53 Fictional narrator whose first name is a fruit 55 Epitome

61 Wireless network necessity

62 Toon with a brother named Castor 63 Oxford pad,

e.g.

64 Locale in SW

France

DOWN 1 Beyond

steamy 2 Boy’s name that means “king”

3 Rose by another name?

4 “Anybody

there?!”

5 Fair

6 Accompaniment for a bottle of rum

7 Beautiful and

rare

8 Chaz, to Cher 9 ___ Game, annual event on the second Saturday of December

10 Raise

11 Everything

considered 12 Occasion for Druids to gather at Stonehenge 13 Absorbed 14 Winter festival 18 Grandes ___, part of France’s higher education system

21 Reiterated

refusal

22 Admissions to

a counselor 23 Network of nerves in the abdomen

25 Rarer than

rare

27 Keep on

keeping on

28 Stop for a bit 36 Employ for lack of better options

37 Place to pick

up litter?

38 Comeback that sounds like a “Star Wars” character 45 Without

incident

46 Alchemist’s

offering

47 Flimflammers 52 His brother was no keeper

54 One end of the narthex

55 Prefix with

-assic

56 Countless

lifetimes

57 Keystone

figure

58 Who wrote “All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream”

59 Pipe

cleaner

60 High rails