The New York Times Crossword
No. 1220
ACROSS
1 Event for which participants may take the floor 6 Pestered persistently 10 Hindu love god
14 Grand Prix site
15 Boost at the gym
17 Bugs
18 Actress whose full name can be made from the letters of DO RE MI 19 Alternative to white
20 ___ Jahan, leader who commissioned the Taj Mahal 22 This might be a bust
23 Part of a dash
26 Hoots
27 Treatment that reduces wrinkles 29 Boomsticks?
31 Largest steel producer in the U.S.
34 Kind of football played indoors
35 Greek “Mother of the Gods” 36 Inedible kind of orange 37 Look after
38 Hardly try anymore 39 Column in a baseball box score 40 Sportscaster Jim
41 50 Cent’s “___ Control” 42 Johnson’s predecessor as British P.M.
43 Some ranch cattle 45 “X-Men” film spinoff starring Hugh Jackman 47 Congressional campaign 51 University near the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains 53 “Whip It” band 54 1/2 vis-à-vis 1/3, say 55 In direct competition 57 Home of the South by Southwest festival 59 Big canned soup brand 60 Irritates, with “on” 61 Tricks
62 Critic’s award
63 Best Play and others
DOWN
1 “Crime and Punishment” heroine
2 Private
3 This is the way 4 Hostile look
5 Snacks
6 Nervous witnesses in mystery novels, often 7 “Blastoff!” preceder
8 Left side, informally 9 Country with hundreds of islands in the Red Sea 10 Former world capital whose name means “capital city” 11 “Ah, yes, I’d been meaning to tell you …”
12 Total mess
13 What “r” might signify 14 Singer Anthony
16 Online service introduced in 2004 21 Frequent subject of headlines in The Onion 24 Difficult journeys
25 “Let me in!”
28 Site for some celebratory dances
30 Bye line?
31 Nothing special, with “the” 32 Nothing special, with “the” 33 “Really, now? Really!?” 35 Electrify
38 Features on topographic maps
40 Walk-ons, often 43 Kendrick of rap 44 Absolutely destroy 46 Pirates’ potables 48 1970s first lady
49 Elite eight
50 Homes in the woods 52 Early illustrator of Uncle Sam 55 No. that’s converted for electric cars
56 Org. that shares its HQ with Cyber Command
58 Drain