Antelope Valley Press

NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

No. 0416

- Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Like much White

House press

8 Stick with

14 Social elites 16 Susan who wrote “The Orchid Thief” 17 Line of

Pokémon

19 Actor James of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”

20 ___ Who Code

(nonprofit) 21 Forerunner of

rocksteady

22 Bad thing to

miss

23 Native Costa Ricans, informally 24 Something that might be raised in a fight 25 Amount to 26 Locales for the Jets and the Sharks

27 Like wicker

chairs

28 Daisy Dukes, e.g. 30 Draft status? 31 Excessive coverage, perhaps 32 Mounted 33 Daylight saving time adjustment: Abbr.

34 You might have

one on the side 37 Roaster

38 Sound of the

West Coast 39 What stamens are,

in botany

40 Word with change

or color 41 Unmasked, say 42 Swears at 43 Travel around the

world

46 Stuck in the

Middle Ages? 47 Summer cooler 48 Early Macedonian

capital

49 Divinity

DOWN

1 Famed Portuguese

explorer

2 Good luck with

that!

3 “Oh, get outta

here!”

4 Lead-in to

physical 5 Suspension

of a sort 6 Onetime

trade org.

7 Sue

8 Target

alternativ­e

9 “De dónde ___?” (Spanish 101 query)

10 ___ borer

(beetle) 11 Russian Revolution figures

12 Silent counterpar­ts, once

13 Where cruise passengers end up 15 Propensity for pilfering 18 Practice that yields mixed results?

23 New York county near Pennsylvan­ia

24 Big name in

crackers

26 1998 Robert De Niro crime thriller

27 The heart of Paris 28 Try to win, in a

way 29 Author/screenwrit­er Ben 30 “Drink marvelousl­y” sloganeer

31 Trailer

32 Look up, in a way 34 Something a 38-Down likes to eat

35 Current weather

concern? 36 Tried-and-true 38 An adult one can spend up to 16 hours a day eating 39 Footslog 41 Contests in which the competitor­s are eliminated one by one

42 Pulitzer winner

Maureen

44 Syringe amts. 45 Soft-spoken words

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