Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The New York Times crossword puzzle
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.