The New York Times
ACROSS
1 “Isn’t it strange?” 9 1, 2, 3, 4 … 11, 12, 14, etc. 15 Natural ingredient in mouthwash 16 Record at the register 17 Times table? 18 Juice 19 Bootlegger’s foe 20 Award winners 22 Modern health risk, informally 24 Composer whose name is one letter off from an international peace grp. 25 How model airplane parts are sold 27 Subject of Shakespeare’s line “Come, thou mortal wretch” 28 Closers of some boxes
32 ___/ hr. (power meas.) 33 Condescending term of address 35 Couscous tidbit 37 Dark 39 Shipment to a mill 40 Ally of Britain during the Seven Years’ War 41 Human Genome Project org. 42 1980s cable competitor of CMT
43 Nonvital surgery target
44 Book before Deut. 46 Finale of a radio countdown 48 Having a little of this, a little of that 51 Bird that sometimes sings in a duet
52 Cal Ripken Jr. or Pee Wee Reese 55 Latin word that’s 12-Down backward 57 Joint 58 Einstein referred to his endorsement of it as “one great mistake” 60 Neutral at worst 61 Longtime locale of Mideast conflict 62 “Nevertheless …” 63 90s kid?
DOWN
1 In ___ of 2 Uncomplicated 3 Bill and Hillary Clinton have each won one 4 Judith who was the second American woman in space
5 Part of a box set, maybe
6 Part of a foot 7 Alpha ___ Minoris (the North Star)
8 With 45-Down, Disney song written by Elton John and Tim Rice 9 Maverick 10 Machine in a particle physics lab, in brief 11 Like some ranking systems 12 Despotic boss 13 Challenges for Roombas 14 ___-fi
21 Extra shot at the slots
23 Lead agent on “NCIS” 25 28-pound debut of 1981
26 Topic in artificial intelligence 29 What’s more 30 Annual mass event in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert
31 Blockage unblocker 34 Humdingers
36 In any possible way, in dialect 38 Titular android of early anime cartoons
45 See 8-Down 47 Offer in advance 49 What unexpected problems may do 50 Foes of the Romans
52 “So ___?” 53 Stock market recommendation 54 Expert on feet 56 Last words? 57 3x platinum Kendrick Lamar song with the lyric “I was born like this”
59 Big Sky Conference sch.