Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Loud
commotion 4 Yeshiva leader 9 Films on a
grand scale 14 Year, in Spain 15 If a > b and b > c, then a > c, e.g.
16 Kind of lily 17 Winter solstice
mo.
18 Lowest point for Americans? 20 Crow
22 Like nylon
stockings 23 Audi rival 24 Like the architecture of many cathedrals 27 Visibly
blushing 29 American-made sports car with a V-10 engine 32 Plains Indian 33 Posted announcement at a theater entrance 34 Andean capital 35 Southernmost
of the Ivies 36 Bass, e.g. 40 Storage
tower
43 Mount that has an insurance company named after it 44 Commotion 47 Solvers’ cries 48 Film character who says “Give yourself to the dark side” 51 Poll worker’s
request
53 From the
beginning: Lat. 54 Prefix with
center
55 Nosy sort 58 ___ room (postdebate area) 59 Prototype,
maybe
63 Item in Santa’s bag
64 Exhaust
65 Dim with
tears 66 Closemouthed 67 Blog entries 68 More or less,
informally 69 Letter before
tee
Down
1 Some schlumpy male physiques 2 Mistakenly 3 “Sorry,
Charlie!” 4 Wicked
cool
5 Dismiss
abruptly 6 Favoritism 7 Not just one or
the other 8 Arriver’s cry 9 Online greeting 10 Bud
11 “O.K., tell me
more”
12 The Tigers of
the A.C.C. 13 Pourer’s
instruction 19 Zig or zag 21 [This tastes
awful!] 25 Prefix with
commute 26 ___ Wilcox, daughter in E. M. Forster’s “Howards End” 28 Amazing,
in slang 30 Rapscallion 31 Road worker 36 Rx detail
37 Mel who was the first N.L.’er to hit 500 home runs
38 How many TV shows are shown nowadays 39 Give in
40 Put some money away 41 “Fingers
crossed!” 42 SoCal daily 44 Sign on a real or virtual pet 45 Tricky … or a tricky description of 18-, 29-, 36-, 48- and 59-Across 46 Words and phrases that sound approximately alike, like “ice scream” and “I scream”
48 Eat stylishly 49 Cute, in
modern slang 50 Reply to a
ques. 52 Replies to an
invitation 56 ___ Accords (1990s peace agreements) 57 Common
fishing spot 60 Openly gay 61 ___ bran 62 Org. that sticks
to its guns?