The New York Times
Edited by Will Shortz No. 0925
ACROSS
1 Industrial V.I.P.
6 Flower that’s also the name of a “Downton Abbey” character
14 Developing, after
“in”
15 “Mahatma,” in
translation
17 International telephone prefix for Russia
18 Greek goddess of
memory
19 Imperial title
21 Abbr. in a birth
announcement
22 Turkish honorific
23 Legal conclusion?
24 Chickens (out)
27 Big family
28 Like favorite
films, typically
30 Like Seth, among the offspring of Adam and Eve
31 Like dry mud on a
dog’s paws
32 “Gotcha”
33 Site of the impact of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago
37 Long lunches?
38 Some avian
homes
39 At _ _ _
(befuddled) 40 Shipping option
for books
44 It’s full of fiber
45 Capybara, for one
46 Raleigh-toRichmond dir.
47 Boosts
48 “Look what I
found!”
49 Kind of typeface or Pepperidge Farm cookie
51 Sport with a “capture the flag” variety
55 Wanderer
56 Food dyes, e.g.
57 Drop, in a way
58 Turned vertically
59 Handy device for
making gazpacho
DOWN
1 Street musician
2 Loose
3 Run through
4 Rock group
5 Campaign catchphrase of 1988
6 Grand opening?
7 Sports agent
Tellem
8 Pulled (in)
9 There are 70 in a Shakespearean sonnet
10 Some muscle
cars
11 W.W. II spy grp. 12 Stalwart
13 It may be in your
jeans
16 Tragic lover of
myth
20 Rowdydow
25 Poet Silverstein
26 Drew in
27 Rhetorical inversion device seen in “Champagne for my real friends, and real pain for my sham friends”
29 Confront
30 Like the red panda, blue whale and black rhino
32 Interim
33 Mexican dish named after a small boat 34 Rooftop landing
sites
35 1960s-’70s detective series set in San Francisco
36 Presage
40 County that’s split in two by the Grand Canyon
41 Low on energy
42 Enter by force
43 Word finishing
ring or band
45 Newswoman
Roberts
48 Palindromic
number in Italian
50 ___ me tangere
(Latin warning)
52 Quibble
53 Spy novelist
Deighton
54 Drug known by its
German initials