NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Worthless

mounds 9 BayArea

campus, in brief 13 Reliable source

of income 15 Impossible chess ending with a king and knight versus a lone king 16 Slimy outdoor

pest 18 “Save yourself!,”

e. g. 19 Didn’t get

takeout 20 At the apex of 22 “___ Misérables” 23 Unwind 24 Item in the lingerie department 27 Not allowing

sales of alcohol 28 Aquamarine or

amethyst 29 Had as a

customer 30 Determined to

accomplish 32 Away from the

office, say 33 Classic 1976 Ramones song that begins “Hey! Ho! Let’s go!” 37 Wade noisily 38 French

girlfriends 39 Liane ___, longtime NPR host 41 “Moreover…” 42 Inexperienced 45 Diamondpatterned footwear 48 ___- tiller 49 “I’ve seen

better” 50 Campus V. I. P. 51 U. S. base in

Cuba, informally 52 Kick ( out) 54 Improvised 57 Tempt 58 Safely run down the clock, in football 59 Mediterranean

volcano 60 Road- scraping

custom car

Down

1 Home of the

Norse gods 2 Granite ___ ( New Hampshire resident) 3 Religious

unorthodoxy 4 Lost all patience 5 Old Testament

paradise 6 “The Fountainhead” author Rand 7 Comfy

sleepwear 8 Kind of renewable energy 9 Baseball boobird’s target, often 10 Hailed from afar 11 Hardy work

shoe feature 12 Enjoy heartily,

as a banquet 14 Keister 17 “There ___ the

neighborhood” 21 Like antlers and

pitchforks 24 Jazzman Stan 25 Wild way to run 26 Amorphous

shapes 28 Entreaty to

Lassie 30 Actress Spacek 31 Second Amendment advocacy grp. 33 Announce

loudly 34 University of

Texas athlete 35 Apple desktop 36 Text- displaying technology on Kindles 37 Walk with an

awkward gait 40 Wolfe of crime

fiction 42 Roly- poly 43 Withdrawal

charge 44 Low- frequency stereo component 46 Velvety 47 Butcher’s scraps 48 Lake of daytime

TV 51 Flippers, scuba tank, etc., for a diver 53 Nonalcoholic

brew 55 Boxing decision,

for short 56 Take an ax to