NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 “And there you

have it!” 9 Small ammo 15 1999 prequel that grossed over a billion dollars, familiarly 16 Obscure

knowledge 17 Iran- contra

business 18 Chucks 19 Cut 20 Things to

19- Across 22 Helps in a way

one shouldn’t 23 Twerps 25 “If I were a betting person, I’d say …” 27 Play with strings 29 Tries to win 30 Hoedown

participant 31 Inverse function

in trigonometry 33 Things non- PC

people buy? 34 Symbol for a member of Anonymous 37 Things often found by the dessert table 38 Dated women? 39 Down 40 It changes one’s

perspective 41 Buck ___, first AfricanAmerican coach in Major League Baseball 44 Time off for an

N. F. L. team 46 One letter of “NATO” in the NATO alphabet 48 Locale for much of “The Da Vinci Code” 49 Arabic name that sounds like a reply of agreement 53 Rocker Gramm

of Foreigner 54 Ominous

parting words 56 “Today” co- host beginning in 2007 58 Book of selected

texts 59 Frequent locale in the comic strip “Andy Capp” 60 Things hashed and mashed, informally 61 Places for

nightstands

Down

1 Lintels, e. g. 2 Blacksmiths’

wear 3 Chucklehead 4 Chucklehead 5 Catch a wave, in

a way 6 Conception 7 About 8 Decorate

elegantly 9 “Enough of this!” 10 Prepares, in a

way, as chicken 11 Sources of labor

pains? 12 Really enjoy

oneself 13 Kind of mind 14 Curtain

decorations 21 Longhorn rival 24 Appeals to a higher authority? 26 Playground

retort 28 Big name in

digital security 29 User- editable

internet pages 32 High- class 33 High points 34 Where the rules

are unclear 35 Be malnourished 36 Some holiday

decorations 37 Plug- in point 40 ___ ape

( gibbon) 42 Digital storage

service 43 Who wrote “He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened” 45 “Salomé”

playwright 47 Easily fooled

sorts 50 “Grand, ungodly, godlike man,” in literature 51 Exclusive 52 No longer anonymous, for short 55 Hosp. parts 57 Butterfly ___

( fish)