NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Gary Larson, of Edmonds, Wash., is a retired comedian. He spent the last 15 years of his career entertaining on cruise ships, where crosswords were a way to pass the time between shows. One day a clue-and-answer combination in a New York Times crossword cracked him up, and he thought, Why don’t I try making one of these? I love writing jokes. How hard can it be to fit them into a puzzle? He found out. This is his 592nd puzzle. It’s his fourth in The Times. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Examples of
attention to detail 9 Yearbook-award word
13 Lift weights 19 Gingerbread man, often
20 British pop singer
Lily
22 In the Caribbean it’s known as ‘‘the chicken of the trees’’
23 ‘‘The government has discovered aliens but isn’t telling us,’’ e.g.
25 Port on the Loire 26 Missouri site of the Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival 27 Applications
29 Actress Ward
30 Acronym for a North American quintet
33 Intertwine
35 Pains in the neck 38 Spanish article
39 Power of a square 42 Mrs. Addams, to
Gomez
43 Nocturnal
bloodsucker
46 Steal
48 Stuff
49 It requires no
oxygen for growth 50 Pants with baggy
legs
52 Task
54 Noodles often eaten cold in the summer
55 Square things
56 Cause of joint pain 5 9Relatively new
relative, maybe
61 Small songbird
62 Cornmeal bread 63 Wood for violin
making
66 Brian who co-founded Roxy Music
67 ‘‘You rang?’’
68 Means of breathing 74 Calming retreat
77 Subject of 199 silkscreen paintings by Warhol
78 Present from birth 79 Activist ____ Alamuddin Clooney
83 Hesitating sound 84 Unremarkable
86 Goes out for a bit? 88 Valorous
89 Specialty
91 The continents, e.g. 94 His resignation triggered the first invocation of the 25th Amendment 96 Start up again
98 Wacky
101 Like some flights 102 Triangular flags 103 Aerial maneuver
104 Kiddy litter?
105 Mature
106 Power issue
107 Computer image
format
109 More up to it
111 South American mammals with trunks 113 Introductory course?
115 Brand of allergy spray
118 Lime and rust 121 It was known by the Algonquin as the ‘‘Father of Waters’’
126 Extends
127 Similar
128 Castle in
‘‘Hamlet’’
129 More out there 130 ‘‘May God bless 666and keep the ____ … far away from us!’’ (line from ‘‘Fiddler on the Roof’’)
131 Return to the fray
DOWN
1 Grumpy co-worker 2 Spanish gold
3 Old country-music
channel
4 French for ‘‘cup’’
5 Locale of Kings County and Queens County, fittingly
6 Like some batteries
and parties
7 Sapa ____ (title for
Atahualpa)
8 Not merely cut
9 Gospel singer
Jackson
10 Fútbol cheer
11 Doesn’t sit right?
12 Snippy, in a way
13 Spare part?
14 Sch. for Bulldogs
15 ’60s sitcom family 16 What ‘‘X’’ marks on
a treasure map 17 First-year law
student
18 Mission-driven org. 21 ‘‘Science Guy’’ Bill 24 Shades
28 Glittery glue-ons 30 Wheel cover
31 Acting mindlessly 32 ‘‘____ Brando: Larger Than Life’’ (1994 biography) 34 Dog in classic films 36 Flowing forth
37 Steeple feature
40 Cleverness
41 Universal donor’s blood type, for short
43 Peacockish
44 Activist Hoffman 45 Milk dispensers
47 Lost cause
51 Only player with three 60+ home run seasons
53 Rest of the
afternoon?
57 Slant skyward
58 2010 sci-fi film
subtitled ‘‘Legacy’’ 60 Trouble
64 Catering container 65 Color for the right eye of a pair of 3-D glasses
69 Only bird with calf
muscles
70 Talking back
71 Graceful spins
72 Informal assents
73 Country singer Price 74 #
75 When doubled, 1934 Cole Porter comedy short 76 Absolutely dazzling 80 Book that’s rarely
read cover-to-cover 81 Right, as a wrong
82 More N.S.F.W., maybe 85 Mimics
87 Vodka or gin
88 Low-dose pain
reliever
90 Mass recitation
92 Symbol meaning ‘‘still
typing’’
93 Tugboat sound 95 Dedicatee of the 1980
song ‘‘ Woman’’
97 Opposite of wide:
Abbr.
99 Like slippers versus
dress shoes
100 Milky gems
107 Muscly
108 Stumper question 110 Life form
111 Went like the dickens 112 Got rid of
114 German granny
116 Where the infant Moses was found 117 Cathedral recess 119 Maa, in 1995’s
‘‘Babe’’
120 Ukr., e.g., once
122 Genre pioneered in
1950s-’60s Jamaica 123 U.S. overseas
broadcaster
124 Unit of work
125 Food writer/tv personality ____ Drummond