NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Places where surgeries are performed, for short
4 Not in any way,
in dialect
9 Composition of
many reefs
14 Sneaky laugh
15 Practice piano
piece
16 “The Phantom
of the ___”
17 Gets past, as an
obstacle
19 Say
20 Spiral shapes
21 Private eye,
quaintly
23 Tattoos,
informally
24 In that case
25 Where pirates
roam
27 Vogue
competitor
28 Period in human history after bronze was supplanted in toolmaking
30 ___ Lilly & Co.
31 Website for
techies
32 Zaps, in a way 35 Omitted
37 Opposite of
35-Across?
39 Worrisome directive from a boss
40 Divisions of a
subdivision
41 ___ Bird, many-time W.N.B.A. Allstar 42 Child’s play
44 It rhymes with fire, appropriately 45 Opposite of
25-Across?
48 Frisbee, e.g.
49 Flexible
blackjack card 50 Male cat
51 Hyundai
compact
54 2014 Ava Duvernay drama
56 Opposite of
17-Across?
58 Place to go for
the highlights? 59 Wham or bam 60 Pig follower in the Chinese zodiac
61 Beginning
62 Gown
63 Moody genre of music or fashion
DOWN
1 “Pick me! Pick
me!”
2 Wake-up calls played on bugles
3 Twinkies have a
long one
4 Classic wafer
brand
5 Nebraska native 6 Carries a tune,
in a way
7 Poem of praise
8 Hilton
competitor 9 Visual jokes in openings of “The Simpsons” (a tradition since the first episode)
10 Make a choice
11 Knot again
12 Venue with
tiered seating
13 Birds that do things just for the fun of it?
18 What good
soufflés do
22 “Liberté, ___, fraternité” (Haiti’s motto) 25 Spicy
26 Informal gettogether
27 Sinuous
swimmer
28 Raging blaze
29 One tweeting
about football? 31 Warrior
33 Place to sell homemade crafts online
34 Enchilada
topping, maybe 36 Blue-green
shade
37 The New Yorker cartoonist Chast
38 Jill Biden ___
Jacobs
40 ___ États-unis 43 Hillary who climbed Mount Everest with Tenzing Norgay 44 Radar sound
45 Dogie catcher 46 Atlantic or
Pacific
47 Wishing sites 48 Induces to pull
a prank, maybe 51 Actress Falco
52 Not so much
53 Regarding
55 Leader of the
Three Stooges 57 Oslo’s country:
Abbr.