THE NYT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 BBQ platter side
5 Two-faced god
10 Shade of blue
14 Low-___
15 “___ the Law” (Steven Seagal picture)
16 Worries for Great Depression banks
17 “Fly ___ spurn thee …”: Shelley
18 Gymnast Strug
19 ___ Dillon, lead role on “Gunsmoke”
20 Classic song with the lyric “Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?”
23 Gold in a pond?
24 Early capital of Alaska
25 Troubling reverie
27 Landscaping tool
29 Flips through, as TV channels
32 What the keys are to a pianist?
35 Trattoria order?
36 Hamilton biographer Chernow and others
37 Suffix with acetyl
38 Negates
39 Just make
41 Holder of encumbered property
42 Andean animal with expensive wool
43 Mo. of Thomas Jefferson's birthday
44 “La Cage aux Folles” enterprise
48 One side of a longstanding feud
52 Prefix with classical
54 Like some magicians” assistants, apparently
56 Feedbag bits
58 Eight-year Clinton cabinet member
59 Eyelashes
60 1917 dethronee
61 Mystery writer Nevada ___
62 Shoelace tip
63 Slippery swimmers
64 Soulful Redding
65 ___ Island Red (fowl type)
DOWN
1 Comes (from)
2 One who was wished a long life, in old French cheers
3 F. Scott Fitzgerald's “Two for ___”
4 Drink often garnished with a cherry
5 Hunky-dory
6 Scottish city that lent its name to a cattle breed
7 Best Picture loser to “Kramer vs. Kramer”
8 Tanning element, informally
9 It’s measured by the Richter scale
10 What a radius is part of
11 Log painted deceptively to look like a cannon
12 “Do ___ others …”
13 Italian wine town
21 Cry before curtsying or taking a bow
22 Tipples circumspectly
26 Exercise-induced euphoria
28 Famously reclusive Hollywood legend
30 “___ and Forget” (classic humor piece by James Thurber)
31 Autograph collector’s enclosure, for short
32 Earlier: Abbr.
33 Shape-shifter of Norse mythology
34 Not statistically based, as evidence
35 Nyasaland, today
40 Some, in Seville
45 Worry about, informally
46 Artist ___ de Toulouse-Lautrec
47 They could be represented by a cartoonist’s wavy lines
49 Salutation among Winnie-the-Pooh and friends 50 Words before “so sue me”
51 ___ worse than death
52 Word that can follow the ends of 20- and
54-Across and 4- and 26-Down
53 What pros handle things with
55 Nascar Hall of Fame locale: Abbr.
57 Some SAT takers: Abbr.