THE NYT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Shoestrings
6 Cook in oil
9 Brewing giant originally based in Milwaukee
14 Roofing alternative to shingles
15 Whopper ( but not the Burger King kind)
16 Hawaiian greeting
17 Extremely inexpensive
19 Things sometimes hidden behind paintings
20 Extinguish, as a fire
21 Cost of a bank transaction that’s not with one’s own bank 22 Confucian philosophy
24 Bottom- up, as a political movement
26 Runs away to marry
29 Like some winter highways 30 Perfect test grade
31 New Testament trio
33 Pop a fly?
37 “Now things are getting interesting” … or a hint to the first words of 17-, 24-, 45and 57- Across
40 Gilbert of “Roseanne” and “The Conners” 41 Knots 42 Ship of 1492 43 High degree 44 Bub 45 Amateurish 51 GPS lines: Abbr. 52 Going from gig to gig 53 Texas city seen in many westerns 56 Hatred 57 Bars that kids go to? 60 Get a feeling 61 Iraq War danger, in brief 62 One of the Hawaiian Islands 63 Parts of a forest 64 “Here’s something interesting,” in brief 65 Got some Z’s
DOWN
1 Timothy Leary’s drug 2 “The Greatest” in the ring 3 One who doesn’t travel to work alone 4 “___, Brute!” 5 Religious offshoot 6 ___- de- lis 7 Cowboy’s rope 8 Informal affirmative 9 Danish or cream puff
10 Avis competitor
11 Highly successful, in theaterspeak
12 One of 500 in a ream
13 Zaps with a police gun
18 Harleys, in slang
21 PC character set
22 Milk dispensers
23 Leader of the pack
25 Sounds of resignation
27 Stage after larva
28 Bilingualism subj.
31 Sacred peak in Greek myth: Abbr.
32 Had one’s fill
33 Equipment often transported on a car’s roof
34 Was a maverick
35 Chipped in at a poker game
36 Old Russian royals
38 None of the above
39 Computer’s “brain,” for short 43 Clouds of smoke
44 What the Titanic had a disastrous encounter with
45 Give a lift
46 Beneath
47 “Goosebumps” writer R. L. ___ 48 One of four purchased for a Monopoly property 49 Sticky
50 We, on a candy heart
54 Fraternal group 55 “You’re on!” 57 Alternative to Skippy or Peter Pan
58 Big mouth
59 Cambridge sch. for budding engineers