NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Catchphrase on
“The Simpsons”
10 Not so hot
14 Love poet of old
15 Stage honor
16 Experts in determining the exact shape and size of the earth
17 Court seat
18 Crisp,
picturewise
19 Place name in
Manhattan
21 CARE, e.g., for
short
22 Got
25 Satisfied the
munchies
27 Digital
identifiers
30 Startled response to “Eek, a mouse!”
31 Avalanche
34 Parched
35 Common activity in couples therapy
38 Off the ___
39 Like presidents with Bibles, maybe
40 Discontinued grocery chain that was once the U.S.’S largest retailer
42 Snuggles
45 Hearty har-hars 48 Like stadiums
50 Counter offer,
for short?
51 Goes “Grrrr”
54 “Kiss Me ___ the Phone” (2009 #3 hit)
55 Spanish opposite of odio
57 “Little Rhody,”
with “the”
60 ___ lives
61 Classic Buster Keaton film set in Civil War times
62 Cut
63 Some terms set by consenting partners
DOWN
1 Childish denial
2 Attention getter
3 Someone to
snuggle with
4 Fiver
5 Some campus
V.I.P.S
6 ___ Barnes, W.N.I.T.winning basketball coach
7 Spanish ___
8 Ashtray fill
9 Burning issue
10 Swarm
11 Many workers on Wall Street, informally
12 Slips and such 13 Cracked, in a
way
14 Weekend
warrior’s cry
20 Uncut
23 Requests made to latecomers, in brief
24 Game in which the object is to end with zero points
26 Psst! Don’t pass
it on!
28 Burgeoned
29 Old English
dialect
32 “An Officer and a Gentleman” star, 1982
33 German philosopher Bloch
35 Hiker’s bagful
36 Annoying thing to hear in a movie theater
37 Queens’s ___
Field
38 Dolce’s partner
in fashion
41 One parent of a mixed-breed “poxer”
43 German leader
after Adenauer
44 Tempur-pedic
alternatives
46 Gut feelings?
47 Actor/ comedian ___ Baron Cohen
49 Face-off
52 Shipwreck site,
maybe
53 Saltimbocca
ingredient
56 Strawberry, raspberry or cherry
58 Inside the box?
59 ___-Cat