Antelope Valley Press

NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

No. 0103

- 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 Salted part of a

margarita glass 4 Wolf (down) 9 Clamp on a stringed instrument

13 Be in the red 14 Sorry sort

15 Said aloud 16 Droop

17 With 55-Across, modern principle of startups 19 Holding account for a down payment, say 21 Tolkien tree

creature

22 ___ Thermopoli­s, Anne Hathaway’s role in “The Princess Diaries” 23 Host’s farewell

phrase 27 Multitaske­r’s

browserful 28 Helpful

connection­s

29 ___ the Riveter,

WWII icon 30 Brouhaha

31 Shoe part that

may develop holes 33 Reddit Q&A

session

34 TV political drama known for its “walk and talks” 38 Epitome of

slipperine­ss 39 Typical high

schooler

40 Female sheep 43 Faith of Representa­tives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib 46 Go on the ___

(flee)

47 Pantyhose

annoyance 48 “Never would have

guessed it!” 52 Grabbed a chair 53 Openly gay 54 Make

harmonious

55 See 17-Across ... or a hint to 23-, 34- and 48-Across 59 Glum

60 “If it ___ broke,

don’t fix it” 61 “Normal People”

author Sally 62 Impetus behind

bragging 63 Mediterran­ean

fruit

64 British bottoms 65 Anderson Cooper,

to Gloria Vanderbilt

DOWN

1 ___ Stone (British Museum attraction)

2 “They got me!” 3 “The Princess

Diaries” author 4 Puts in the overhead bin, say

5 Thanksgivi­ng mo. 6 Chemical ending 7 Directs, as to a

specialist

8 Swiss currency 9 Cause for an extra

charge at a hotel 10 One of the Three

Musketeers 11 Italian pressed

sandwich 12 “Ripe” time of

one’s life

14 All over the place 18 Enter with hostility 20 ER staffers 24 Tend to, as taxes

or fingernail­s 25 What a budget

motel might have 26 Complain

31 “Looks fine to me” 32 Bird in Tootsie Pop commercial­s since 1970

33 Feeling of

astonishme­nt 35 Warmth

36 Mall Santa, e.g. 37 Brainiacs 41 “Should we

bounce?” 42 Goaded

43 “Oh, not good at

all”

44 “The way,” in Arabic 45 Like variables that are not directly observed

46 Lex of “Superman” 47 Concorde, e.g., in

brief

49 Kama ___ 50 Shows explosive

anger

51 ___-bitsy 56 Supped

57 iPhone platform 58 Opposite of SSW

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