NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 “A-a-a-and ... ___!” 6 Character who nails a doubloon to the Pequod’s mast
10 One knocking on
many doors 14 Cough drop
flavoring
15 Surfer’s wish 16 Last remaining 17 First name in
cosmetics 18 Polymath called “The First Teacher” by medieval scholars
20 What a multitasker
might kill
22 Long, long time 23 Say further
24 Off the hook, so to
speak
27 Author Zora ___
Hurston
29 Sunny side of
breakfast
31 Digital number? 32 What it’s impossible to be in 35 Bobby-soxer’s
dance
37 Boating noun and
verb
38 Curator’s field 39 Reluctant to relive
an experience 44 Subgenre lead-in 45 Plays the ponies,
say
46 Sanctuaries 49 Farm animal, in
tot-speak
51 Abbr. after a dot,
usually 52 Slice (off) 54 Top-grossing
movie of 1987 58 “Get out of bed,
sleepyhead!” 60 Narrow 61 Something one may regret hitting
62 City of Paris? 63 Commercial
49-Across 64 Crafty site
65 ___ Gruber, archvillain in “Die Hard”
66 Finer points,
slangily
DOWN
1 Biblical kingdom on the Arabian peninsula
2 Take on a joint
liability
3 Salad, sometimes, but soup, rarely 4 Desperate
straits
5 Look up and
down
6 Tony, e.g.
7 Word with copy or
currency
8 Alamo
competitor 9 “Settle down” 10 Bottoms out? 11 Forager with tiny hooks on its tongue
12 Afflicted
13 Do or ___ (hair
salon name) 19 Maker of small
front-end loaders 21 Inkling
25 Like half of the
Odd Couple 26 Tolkien tree
creature 28 Book it: Abbr. 29 Hearty
affirmations 30 Noted honky-tonk
venue, familiarly 33 Damage, so to
speak
34 Low islands 35 Where Miss Aloha
Hula is crowned 36 Ones giving you a
leg up?
39 Sound of a sock 40 FDR purchased the
first one 41 Curriculum overhaul triggered by the Sputnik crisis 42 Slice, e.g. 43 Spirit-filled?
47 Go by
48 “All right then” 50 The treat in “trick
or treat”
51 Show 6-Downs 53 They’re lit at
funerals
55 Razor brand
56 ___ tetra
57 What a haymaker
makes 58 Manipulate 59 Stroke