NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
No. 0305
ACROSS
1 Tea with tapioca
pearls
5 Tear to bits 10 Syringe amts. 13 Anthony Hopkins’
role in “Thor” 14 France’s longest
river
15 Something to draw
names out of 16 Flaw in an
argument 19 Inventor David Aguilar built a fully functional prosthetic one from Legos
20 “My treat!”
21 ___ Sea, body of water between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan 22 “August: ___ County” (Pulitzerwinning play) 24 Walk quietly
26 Void
28 On the briny 29 Weightlifting item for a biceps routine
33 AOL competitor 34 Messy living area 37 French friend
38 “I love you,” in
Spanish
40 Toad’s kid-lit
pal
41 Many a beverage
ending in “-ade” 45 Lose rigidity 48 Trophy or medal 49 Abbr. at the end of
a list of authors 50 Marbled loaves 51 Queen’s pawn? 54 Spring-loaded office device ... or a collective hint to 16-, 26-, 34- and 41-Across 58 Cry that’s a homophone (and anagram) of 55-Down 59 Meat skewer 60 Sign of past
stitches, perhaps 61 Simon & Garfunkel’s
“___ Robinson” 62 Georgia school said to be one of the “Southern Ivies” 63 Fellow bringing a dozen roses, maybe
DOWN
1 Cattle-catching
weapon
2 Strong smell 3 Eagerly awaited
occasion
4 What “their” is spelled with, but not “there” or “they’re” 5 Like “b-boy” or “my b” 6 “A Study in
Scarlet” detective 7 Widespread 8 Notable time period 9 Director Guillermo
___ Toro
10 Reach the Billboard
Hot 100, e.g. 11 Chocolate source 12 Something that editors and clothing designers are concerned with 17 Cold weather wear 18 Folded part of a
17-Down
23 Place for a wax 24 Like a tightrope,
ideally
25 Flo Rida hit with the lyric “Champagne buckets still got two tears in it” 26 Standard Oil offshoot 27 Windows runners 28 Comedian Sedaris 30 Where to swing your partner ’round and ’round 31 Bad way to run 32 Equip for sailing 34 Eggplant ___ (Italian dish, familiarly) 35 “It’s my turn!” 36 “There but for the
grace of God ___” 39 Use TurboTax, e.g. 40 Silver ___ (tree of
the Alps)
42 Swift to fill a
concert hall? 43 Dorky
44 Scratchy voice quality 45 “Don’t let those
people escape!” 46 Catchall survey option 47 Birds that sing
extravagant melodies 50 Prefix meaning
“automated” 52 Final Four org. 53 No ___ Traffic 55 Barely manage,
with “out” 56 Theatrical sort 57 Kind of port seen
at airport kiosks
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