NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
No. 0102
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”