NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 “No need to say
it again”
6 Group of
criminals
10 Father on a stud
farm
14 Tennis star
Osaka
15 Cookie whose packaging shows a splash of milk
16 What might give “caws” for concern for a farmer?
17 “Cómo ___?” (“How are you?”: Sp.)
18 Droplet of happiness or sadness
19 Assistant
20 Things modern
travelers pack 23 Woodman’s makeup in “The Wizard of Oz” 24 Auto tankful
25 Dickens’s
Oliver Twist or Kipling’s Mowgli
28 In the year of
___ Lord
29 Decrease in size, as the moon
31 NNW’S opposite 32 Forms of some kids’ multivitamins 36 Direction after
adding sugar
37 Stockpile
38 ___-tac-toe
39 Road Work ___
(highway sign) 40 Ice hockey
venue
41 Breakfast side at
a diner 43 “___, humbug!” 44 Exam
45 One who cries
“Yer out!”
46 Ice hockey
player
48 Ironically
humorous
49 Score 100% on 52 Governmentbacked investments
56 B sharp or B flat 58 The Cowboys’ five-pointed star or the Colts’ horseshoe
59 Listings on an actor’s IMDB page
60 Melee
61 Idiot
62 Cognizant (of) 63 Camera’s “eye” 64 Ocular swelling 65 Items on a todo list
DOWN
1 Like a
butterfingers
2 Healthful Kellogg’s cereal brand
3 Off,
palindromically 4 “Toe” of the Arabian Peninsula
5 Smart alecks
6 High schoolers who dress in black, maybe
7 Calculation in
calculus
8 In the
neighborhood
9 Mythological monsters with snakes for hair 10 Steep
embankment 11 Traditional St. Patrick’s Day dish
12 Support for a
shower curtain 13 Farm animal that sounds like a letter of the alphabet
21 Low-___ diet
22 “Able was I ___ I
saw Elba”
26 Like Russia, east
of the Urals
27 Jocks’ counterparts, stereotypically 28 Southern
Siberian city
29 Dress part that
may be taken in 30 St. Louis
landmark
32 Clothes
33 Inuit boat
34 Whiskey cocktail … or where it was invented
35 When planes are due in, for short
36 Engage in some
“retail therapy”
39 Kid with
military parents 41 Some angels … or some newspapers
42 Hide in a hardto-find spot
44 Prop for a
football kickoff 47 Three-point shots, informally
48 Jotted down
49 Star student’s report card, maybe
50 Worker for a Supreme Court justice
51 Twisty curves
53 Chimney
buildup
54 Pretty ___
(oxymoron)
55 Hawkeye State 56 Org. that’s home to the ends of 20-, 32-, 41- and 52-Across
57 Mineral-bearing
rock