The new york times crossword
ACROSS
1 Part of a boot 7 Purina product 14 “Finished!” 15 “You wish!” 16 Young raptor 17 Highs and
lows, e.g. 18 Muchdiscussed immigration measure first introduced in 2001
20 Silver
21 Ape whose name comes from Malay for “man”
23 “I reckon” 24 Company that makes vegan alternatives to beef and sausage
29 The Liberty Tree and others 32 Observe Yom
Kippur, e.g. 33 Adidas
alternative 34 Vacation locale for President Gerald Ford 35 Actress
Elisabeth 36 Hauled 37 Tennis’s
Kournikova 38 Wails
39 Pat on the
back, maybe 40 Upright
41 “You have a
point …” 42 No-win
situations 44 Put on a black
coat?
46 Nice things to get on the back, but not on the face 47 Cleaned up,
in a way 50 Frenzied 55 Area including Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas 57 Capital of the onetime Republic of the
Rio Grande 58 “It sounds to
me like …” 59 Follows, as
advice 60 Rubberized,
maybe 61 “Bug”
DOWN
1 One-to-one,
say
2 Congresswoman
Ilhan
3 Lucky thing to hit in Ping-Pong 4 Fountain
option 5 Windflower 6 Fortificationbreaching bomb
7 Crew leader,
informally 8 Former U.N. secretary general
Kofi ___ Annan
9 Linger 10 Subject of a classic black, white and red poster 11 Earth, to us 12 Many a
tournament 13 Occident 15 Subject in the purview of the Federal Communications Commission 19 In-tents
experiences? 22 Method of
attack
24 Opera’s Don Pedro and Don Pasquale, e.g. 25 Shared values 26 “Just watch me
do it!”
27 Race cars,
typically 28 Soupçon 30 Chop
31 Blind spots? 36 “Full Frontal With Samantha
Bee” network 40 Typographer’s
gap
43 Where water samples may be tested, informally 45 Luke
Skywalker or Han Solo 47 Sportscaster
Andrews 48 First queen of
Carthage 49 Member of the South Asian diaspora 51 Hangings in la Galleria degli Uffizi 52 Place to find the birds and the bees?
53 One with tens of millions of Instagram followers, maybe
54 Part of an obstacle course
56 Race unit
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