The new york times crossword
ACROSS
1 Abbr. in some
job titles 5 Sustain 9 Singles player in the 1950s 14 One might be
drawn
15 ___ talk 16 Indulge 17 Spread unit 18 Ingredient in some Italian sauces 20 Fine-tune 22 Breakout
console 23 Where Prince Kuhio Day is celebrated 24 Element that burns with a green flame 26 Pillage and
plunder 28 Hearst mag founded in 1886 32 Heartache
35 It doesn’t
follow 37 Author/TV personality who wrote “Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park”
39 Swear
words?
40 Tech ___ 41 Pasta variety 42 The world, to ambitious types
44 Los ___,
Calif. 46 Toughens 50 BP brand 52 Beatles hit about “a man who thought he was a loner”
53 “This is just
wonderful!” 56 Present time,
for short 57 Hustler’s game 58 What Carnival precedes
Its anthem is “Amhrán na bhFiann” 60 Record
component 61 Lets go 62 They’re found in most clothes closets
59
DOWN
1 Put to shame 2 Satirist ___
Baron Cohen 3 One might be
drawn
4 Aries
5 Pokers, e.g. 6 Soba
alternative 7 Victim of a bark beetle attack
8 Open field 9 Light-induced flow of electric charge
10 Like many
sci-fi aliens 11 Poet Khayyám 12 “Me? Never!” 13 Top medalla 19 Gravel
alternative 21 Coach for the
bench players? 24 Some restaurant staffers
25 Classical
theaters 27 “Moving right
along …” 29 Shot in the
dark 30 “Studies in the
Sierra” author 31 “Yes ___?” 32 Marvel superhero with the power to shrink, with “the” 33 Almost never 34 Where Ian Fleming spent much of the 1920s 36 Division
outcomes 38 Kept 43 Pitcher’s
push-off point 45 Corn spot 47 Invention of Guglielmo Marconi 48 Modern party
planning aid 49 Long-haired
terriers
50 “De ___ y de Sombra” (Isabel Allende novel) 51 British car 52 ___ therapy 53 Little devil 54 Resembling 55 Needle or
nettle
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