Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

The New York Times Crossword

- By Erika Ettin Edited by Will Shortz No. 0117

ACROSS

1 The NCAA’S Crimson Tide, to fans

5 Obsolescen­t devices with Rewind buttons 9 Lincoln _ _ _ (toy set)

13 Cry from a congregati­on 14 Scroll through a few books? 15 Proctored event 16 Zero, zippo, zilch 18 Hamilton’s notes 19 Couple’s 60th anniversar­y [Spanish]

21 Fitting

22 A panda’s is almost entirely bamboo

23 Saunter

26 “Aw, rats!” [Dutch, Swedish]

31 ___ a soul (no one)

32 Contractio­n in “Deck the Halls” 33 Votes into office 34 Pie ___ mode 35 Whom one might go see at “tooth hurty,” per a classic joke [Czech]

37 Cartoon collectibl­e

38 Cubans, for example 40 Profession­al connection­s

41 Show the merits of, say

42 Goes with someone else [German]

44 Center

45 Substance in a petri dish

46 Bud

47 “I think we’re done here”

… or a hint to translatin­g each of the four shaded words in this puzzle 54 Command-s, on a Mac

55 Rhode Island, with “the”

56 Furniture giant whose name is an acronym

57 “You win”

58 Prep school about an hour by train from London 59 Lifetime, for the U.S. Supreme Court

60 You might give something up for this

61 Easy targets

DOWN

1 Word after rock or rubber

2 Mine, in Marseille 3 Parent company of Facebook

4 Odd exception 5 Nullify

6 Bovine : cow :: corvine : ___ 7 Family-friendly, as films

8 Sketchy behavior

9 Phrase sung 36 times in a 1970 Beatles hit 10 Plow-pulling pair 11 Clique

12 Sort of cellphone text, for short 14 Collapsibl­e camping gear 17 “Uh-uh”

20 Taken care of, with “with”

23 “It was all ___!” (“They were just pretending!”)

24 Elder Obama daughter

25 Singer activist

Billy

26 Cacophony

27 Actor John, Sean or Mackenzie 28 Secretly included, in a way

29 Things filling an agenda 30 Letter-shaped opening in hardware

32 Electrical transforme­r named for its creator 35 Is tiresomely long, as a meeting 36 Gerund suffix

39 All for one and one for all

41 Widens, as a pupil 43 Prognostic­ator 44 They get walked all over

46 Long (for)

47 One of more than 14,000 in Minnesota

48 At any point

49 Kings of ___ (“Sex on Fire” quartet) 50 Stick around awhile

51 Facts and figures 52 Perched on 53 Desires

54 Command just before giving a dog treat

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