Antelope Valley Press

NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

No. 0602

- Edited by Will Shortz PUZZLE BY JOHN EWBANK Online subscripti­ons: Today’s puzzle and more than 7,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year).

ACROSS

1 Police officers, in

British slang 6 Promotes,

informally 10 Provisos

13 Subject of the Jake Gyllenhaal movies “Donnie Darko” and “Source Code” 15 Small fragment 16 Genre for “Dune” and “Flash Gordon” 17 European tourist attraction that’s erupted in popularity

18 Party animal? 19 Brink

20 Arctic food fish 21 Part of a comic

strip

23 Something out standing in its field?

24 Styx figure

28 Any of the “Bad Boys” in the 1980s-’90s NBA 29 Traveler’s aid 30 Traveler’s aid 32 Figure at a shareholde­rs’ meeting, in brief

33 Engaged in

34 In check

35 Out to lunch 36 Targets for crunches, informally

37 Swell

38 “Look for yourself” 39 Full of pluck 41 They’re first to

play 43 Goes on and on 44 Maker of Gator

utility vehicles 45 “Post hoc, ___ propter hoc” (causal fallacy) 46 Any chess move in which one gives up a piece, informally 47 Reach through

reasoning

52 Hawk

53 One working with

a set of keys 55 Language spoken

in Canada 56 General motor? 57 Doofus 58 Org. with a small, one-story building in Times Square 59 Mergers and

acquisitio­ns

DOWN

1 Possible concern

for a vet

2 Certain cosmetic procedure, for short

3 Land with an exclave on the Strait of Hormuz 4 Hit the ___ 5 Skyline sight 6 Freestyle, e.g.

7 It’s an uphill climb

from here 8 Jeopardy 9 Wrestling move 10 “Well, then ...” 11 You can take it or

leave it

12 Website with a No Fear Shakespear­e section 14 Adjective applied to the U.K.’s Air Force and Navy, but not Army 15 Vaishnavis­m and

Shaivism, e.g. 22 “Groovy!” 23 Member of the

fam

24 Taqueria beverage 25 Attendants at a

saturnalia 26 Billboard Hot 100

listings

27 Marriage

agreement? 28 Suffer

consequenc­es 31 Milky drink 34 Gymnast Raisman 35 “i” piece

37 Group with 26Down in Korean, Japanese and English

38 Waved at, say 40 Loosely worn item

of attire

42 Zeal

44 No-no for a vegan 46 About 80 meters,

for an Airbus A380 48 “So inconsider­ate!” 49 ___ Empire 50 Wiener schnitzel

ingredient

51 Has it wrong 54 Positive

indication?

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