N.Y. Times Crossword Puzzle

CELEBRITY CROSSWORD

This puzzle is a collaboration by the actor Josh Radnor. the star of the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" as wet as the write"/director of two films (to date), working together with Jeff Chen, a writer in Seattle. This is Jeff's 80th crossword for The Times. More information about the making of today's puzzle appears in the Time's daily crossword column (nytimes.com/column/wordplay). Across 1 Not seen by the theater audience 9 Company that acquired Zipcar in 2013 3 Emulates the teacher n "Ferris Bueller's Day Off' 4 Speak partly through the nose 6 Women rush to get into it 7 Hit it! 8 Some wonderful times in Nebraska? walk ref encounters, as with the law 4 Good name for politico Martin's Jazz band? Extraction target, often Small version of a popular cookie 1 Untouchable leader Portentous fashion magazine? Poetic Ireland Letters Actor Cariou Makes an unabridged humor book? 7 Multi-armed mollusk 9 Lead-in to mensch Calculated ... or a punny hint to 18-, 24-, 32- and 44-Across Pushkin's " Onegin" 56 Vitamin brand with a hyphen between its last two letters 50 "Dirty Harry" director Don 51 Kept on the down-low? 52 Like much folk music: Abbr. 53 Important stat for QBs Down 1 Has too much for short 2 To's opposite 3 A word between the two A's in NAA.C.P. 4 Reggae persona for a noted rapper 5 Politician's time 6 Area traversed by Marco Polo 7 Sort of person heavily into eyeliner 8 One-named Nevi Age singer 9 Personal enmity 10 Transports for Tarzan 11 Sir Walter Scott novel 12 "English" and "Irish" canines 14 Wear 15 Lads' loves 19 Aid in climbing the corp. ladder 20 Juice brand with a distinctive bottle 21 Virgin (recorc label) 22 Kurosawa's adaptation of "King Lear" 25 Herbert of the "Pink Panther" movies 26 Before, in poetry 27 Itch 28 Extremely fancy? 31 Court officials whose jobs have now been replaced by technology Special Spirit once made in bathtubs Tour grp. Runs off (with) 7 New enlistee It has no point 0 High ball 1 Squeeze (out) 2 Etre : French :: Spanish Aid a first night in a theater 5 Wear on a runway 6 Mean Amin 8 Symbol for the resistance? 51 Try 52 In the thick of 53 Day worker 54 Singer Franklin who was Aretha's elder sister 57 Lifesaving locales, for short 58 Word on many a wedding announcement 58 Bank offerings, for short