Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Amount to make do with 5 Slip up 8 Teleprompter user
14 Late Surrealist Turner 15 Second person 16 Country singer Carly 17 Mercury or Sun, e.g. 19 Volume 1, Number 1 a nd others 20 Sporty 1980s Pontiac 21 Reprobate 23 Common man’s name from Hebrew 24 Some diplomats working in N.Y.C. 26 Mercury or Venus, e.g. 28 ___ Lobos 29 Something to chew on 31 Bronze Age fertility deity 32 ___ Pass (means of foreign travel) 34 Smack 35 Mercury or Earth, e.g. 38 “Yikes!” 40 Invented 41 Liquid absorbed by surrounding soil
44 “Bill ___ Saves the World” 45 Shots fired? 48 Mercury or Mars, e.g. 50 ITV spot 52 Handel’s “___ for St. Cecilia’s Day”
53 72 things in this puzzle 55 Carson City’s lake 56 Lightly burned 58 Mercury or Saturn, e.g. 60 Deep down 61 Vegas casino with the Penn & Teller Theater 62 Kennington cricket ground, with “the”
63 Waged a long campaign against 64 Place for a slop bucket 65 Patches (up)
Down
1 Within bounds 2 Current event? 3 They go into battle at the sides of cavalrymen 4 Capture 5 ___ of Providence (image on a dollar bill) 6 Sound in a circus act 7 Buzz 8 Poppy products 9 Upgrade to a box, perhaps
10 Wiimote batteries 11 Only movie for which John Wayne won an Oscar 12 Striped and spotted felines 13 Lives 18 Highestgrossing movie of 1986
22 Not hold back 25 Positive 27 Uncovered 30 Only performer with a speaking part in 1976’s “Silent Movie” 32 Slender Japanese mushroom 33 Bit of Wall St. news
35 So to speak
36 Novelist Seton 37 Must 38 Unconscious assimilation 39 Subject of the 2006 biography “Escape!” 42 Submit
43 ___ Age (late 19th century) 45 Parent’s admonition 46 NBC Nightly News anchor before Brian Williams 47 Braces 49 Gets in the neighborhood of
51 “Let’s go!,” in Spanish 54 Hearts, but not minds
57 It’s a job 59 Little dog