THE NYT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Building material for the first little pig
6 Some bank offerings, for short
9 ___ and cheese
12 Swim meet coverage?
13 Nancy who solves mysteries
14 Words said at the altar
15 President’s plane
17 ___-Mex
18 Roadside stops
19 Wrestling for 400pounders
20 Rodshaped bacterium
22 Broadway’s “___ Miz”
23 Cry before “You’re out!”
25 Dorm figs.
26 Actor Hemsworth of “The Hunger Games”
27 Material for a tightfitting glove
30 “Up top!”
35 Landed, as on a branch
36 Actions on the dance floor
37 “Mmmhmm, mmmhmm”
38 Conclusion of a close World Series
40 Photograph er Adams
41 Flair
42 Brand of sheepskin boots
43 Ecstatic
48 He-sheep
51 Beauty’s partner, with “the”
52 Charged particles
53 Martial art that’s an Olympic sport
54 Big feature on a donkey
55 Miscellany … or a description of the final words in 15, 23-, 30-, 38and 43Across
58 Since Jan. 1
59 Word repeated in “It’s ___, all ___!”
60 Tax cheats’ fears
61 “Hel-llp!”
62 Suffix with differ
63 Insurance company with a lizard mascot
DOWN
1 Backbone
2 Shore birds
3 Officials crying “Offside” and “Pass interference”
4 Commotion
5 Opposite of bests
6 No-good thief
7 Lair
8 Hon
9 Sometimes good, sometimes bad
10 “Hello” singer of 2015
11 Gumption
12 Take a yacht out
13 Singer Lovato
16 Scoundrel
21 Rubbing the wrong way?
23 “Wailing” instrument
24 Stately shade trees
25 Gives a new account of
27 Annoying feature of an online stream
28 In the manner of 29 Means of tracking workers’ hours
30 www.health care.___
31 “Now ___ seen it all!”
32 Restroom sign
33 Flying geese formation
34 Sea slitherer
36 It’s fixed for a prix fixe meal
39 Príncipe’s sister island
40 6 or so, for first graders
42 Release from being caught on a nail, say
43 Adheres to, as a rule
44 Old-fashioned “Awesome!”
45 “I ___ see that coming!”
46 What smells
47 Pigs ___ blanket
48 Like some ancient characters
49 Embellish
50 What rolling stones don’t gather
53 Force-ful characters?
56 Cacophony
57 Like some library books and babies