Antelope Valley Press

NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

No. 0102

- Edited by Will Shortz Online subscripti­ons: Today’s puzzle and more than 7,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year). Read about and comment on each puzzle: nytimes.com/wordplay.

ACROSS

1 ___ for apples

(have some fall fun) 4 Start of the day, in

poetry

8 Emmy or Grammy 13 Prefix with center 14 Off-limits

15 Jazz great

Count ___ 16 Chicken piece that’s not a breast or a wing

17 Come up

18 Director Welles 19 The 2005 compilatio­n “Killer Queen” is one honoring Queen

22 Guided adventure in

the Serengeti

23 Drill sergeant’s

“Relax!” 27 Chemistry lab

device

31 Doesn’t have 34 Attempts

35 “___ Te Ching”

(philosophi­cal text) 36 Jazz great Fitzgerald 37 Sounds from new

instant messages 38 Basic origami step 39 U.S. spy org.

40 Who might grant

you three wishes 41 Present, past or

future perfect 42 Topper for a

Whopper 45 Liveliness, from the

French

46 Flower that vanilla

comes from 50 Classic song about a soulmate ... or a phonetic hint for repeated pairs of letters in 19-, 27and 42-Across 54 Fashion label from

Milan

57 ___ donna

58 “Why was 6 afraid of 7? Because 7 ___ 9!” 59 Sun-related

60 No longer available,

as a seat

61 Bit of body ink, for

short

62 Rats (on) 63 Kerfuffle

64 General on a

Chinese menu

DOWN

1 Straps that go

around the waist 2 “La Bohème” or

“La Traviata”

3 It’s very unlikely to

happen 4 Actor/comedian

Steve

5 8-Across for some

New York plays 6 Civil rights icon ___

Parks

7 Christmas carol 8 Informatio­n header on

a business’s website 9 Higher in temperatur­e 10 ___-backwards (utterly wrong, in slang) 11 ___ de Janeiro 12 Thieves’ hangout 14 Ford model that’s

also a zodiac sign 20 Loaf-shaped cake 21 Innocent sorts “in

the woods” 24 Playwright Chekhov 25 Makes watertight,

say

26 Wear away 28 Attack, as a bee

might

29 Muppet who loves

his rubber duckie 30 Neighbor of Mali 31 Milk, in Spanish 32 Buffalo Bill, for

William Cody 33 Gripping tool 37 Capital of Western

Australia

38 Engage in épée,

e.g.

40 Things with necks

and frets

41 Head covering

that’s wrapped 43 ___ shower (prewedding event) 44 One born shortly after WWII, informally

47 Hotel chain whose name rhymes with “quiet”

48 Scintillas 49 Because of 51 Many NYC

dwellings: Abbr. 52 “Oh, nerts!” 53 Kind of bar with island-themed drinks

54 Winter hrs. in L.A. 55 Fish eggs

56 “___ roads lead to

Rome”

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