NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Get ready to hem,
say
6 Hankering
10 Thomas
Edison’s middle name
14 Boxing venue
15 ___ Hari (W.W.
I spy)
16 Russian “no”
17 City where you won’t find the Eiffel Tower
19 Cotton
processors
20 Not to mention
…
21 Org. for which Jason Bourne works in
“The Bourne Identity”
22 Author Charlotte, Emily or Anne
24 City where you won’t find the Parthenon
28 1965 Alabama
march site
30 Saintly
“Mother”
31 Utopian
32 Plant on a trellis
33 1950s White House nickname
36 “Nuts!”
37 Gets ready, as
for surgery
39 Insect flying in a
cloud
40 CPR pro
41 Sound made by helicopter rotors
42 Rings, as a
church bell 43 Yasir of the
P.L.O.
45 What the back of a store might open onto
46 City where you won’t find Virgil’s Tomb
50 Pal of Jerry on
“Seinfeld”
51 Driveway
material
52 QB successes
55 Excessive drinking or gambling
56 City where you won’t find the El Greco Museum
60 Neck and neck
61 Cousin of
“Kapow!”
62 Refrigerator
compound
63 Cincinnati
squad
64 “Well, that was
stupid of me!”
65 Commuter boat
DOWN
1 Owner of the first bed that Goldilocks tested
2 Tehran’s land
3 “Here comes
Poindexter!”
4 Prefix with lateral or cellular
5 Easter-related
6 “Let me rephrase that …”
7 Receipt line just
above the total
8 Org. that runs Windy City trains
9 Fading stars
10 Kind of goat that’s the source of mohair
11 Not upstanding, in either sense of the word
12 20-ounce size at
Starbucks
13 Confounded
18 Bit of attire you might learn how to put on while using a mirror
23 Valentine’s Day
flower
25 I.R.S. agent,
quaintly
26 More than a
couple
27 Part of a golf
club
28 Pro or con, in a
debate
29 Dutch cheese
33 All riled up
34 Curly-leafed
cabbage
35 Online market
for craftspeople 37 What follows the initial part of a master plan
38 Repeated bit
in jazz
39 Neuter, as a
horse
41 Small, brown
bird
42 Join in couples
43 1986 sci-fi sequel set in deep space
44 Venerated
symbols
46 “Not a chance!”
47 Still surviving
48 Walked nervously back and forth
49 Far out
53 Designer
Christian
54 ___ Pictures, one of Hollywood’s Big Five studios
57 Cry of surprise
58 Drink like a cat
59 Bauxite, e.g.