The New York Times crossword puzzle
Note: To mark the 75th anniversary of the New York Times crossword, we are publishing a series of puzzles co-created by famous people who solve the Times crossword and regular Times puzzle contributors that will appear periodically through the year. This collaboration is by Grammy-winning classical pianist Emanuel Ax and Brad Wilber.
Across
1 BBQ platter side 5 Two-faced god 10 Shade of blue 14 Low-___ 15 “___ the Law” (Steven Seagal picture) 16 Worries for Great Depression banks 17 “Fly ___ spurn thee …”: Shelley 18 Gymnast Strug 19 ___ Dillon, lead role on “Gunsmoke” 20 Classic song with the lyric “Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?” 23 Gold in a pond? 24 Early capital of
Alaska 25 Troubling
reverie 27 Landscaping tool 29 Flips through, as TV channels 32 What the keys
are to a pianist? 35 Trattoria order? 36 Hamilton biographer Chernow and others 37 Suffix with acetyl 38 Negates 39 Just make 41 Holder of encumbered property 42 Andean animal with expensive wool 43 Mo. of Thomas Jefferson’s birthday 44 “La Cage aux Folles” enterprise 48 One side of a longstanding feud 52 Prefix with classical 54 Like some magicians’ assistants, apparently 56 Feedbag bits 58 Eight-year Clinton cabinet member 59 Eyelashes 60 1917 dethronee 61 Mystery writer
Nevada ___ 62 Shoelace tip 63 Slippery swimmers 64 Soulful Redding 65 ___ Island Red
(fowl type)
Down
1 Comes (from) 2 One who was wished a long life, in old French cheers 3 F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Two for ___” 4 Drink often garnished with a cherry 5 Hunky-dory 6 Scottish city that lent its name to a cattle breed 7 Best Picture loser to “Kramer vs. Kramer” 8 Tanning element, informally 9 It’s measured by the Richter scale
10 What a radius
is part of 11 Log painted deceptively to look like a cannon 12 “Do ___ others …” 13 Italian wine town 21 Cry before curtsying or taking a bow 22 Tipples circumspectly 26 Exercise-induced
euphoria 28 Famously reclusive Hollywood legend 30 “___ and Forget” (classic humor piece by James Thurber) 31 Autograph collector’s enclosure, for short 32 Earlier: Abbr. 33 Shape-shifter of Norse mythology 34 Not statistically based, as evidence 35 Nyasaland, today 40 Some, in Seville 45 Worry about, informally 46 Artist ___ de Toulouse-Lautrec 47 They could be represented by a cartoonist’s wavy lines 49 Salutation among Winniethe-Pooh and friends 50 Words before
“so sue me” 51 ___ worse
than death 52 Word that can follow the ends of 20- and 54-Across and 4- and 26-Down 53 What pros handle things with 55 Nascar Hall of Fame locale: Abbr. 57 Some SAT
takers: Abbr.