The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Something you may want to
clear up
5 Othello, for one
9 Loses sheen, perhaps
14 One of the Aesir
15 Uncovered
16 ID seen at the post office 17 Nobel winner Morrison 18 Dressing room
encouragement
20 “Stop trying to help!”
22 A counting job?
23 Own up (to)
24 Purpose
25 Eva Perón was one: Abbr. 26 You can bet on it!
28 Simple matter of probability 33 Numbers not meant to be
shared
34 Speedy sci-fi technology 35 Secretly unionize?
36 Drop the ball
37 With 11-Down, kids’ party
activity
38 “Peter Pan” princess 40 Lashes makeup
41 Look that might freeze you in
your tracks
42 Martini option
43 Subj. of international treaties 44 Bon ___ (high society: Fr.) 45 Friendly introduction? 47 Cause of weakness
51 What Babe aspires to be in
“Babe”
53 Romantic bunch
55 ___ Mountains, range crossed on the Trans-Siberian railway 56 What “he” and “do”
don’t do
57 Biblical preposition 58 Terpsichore or Calliope 59 Strategic bodies of water 60 “Out of Africa” author
Dinesen
61 Little drones
DOWN
1 Story that goes over your
head?
2 One constantly craving
kisses?
3 “It was not my intention to
make anyone upset,” often 4 CNN’s Burnett
5 Scavenger hunt cry
6 Little sucker
7 Substance
8 Towering figure in “The Two
Towers”
9 “Wake up, sleepyhead!” 10 Kake ___ (Japanese dish) 11 See 37-Across
12 Biblical pronoun
13 ___ vide (culinary technique) 19 Substitute for legal tender 21 Ports, e.g. 25 Pathetic
27 Metaphorical knowledge 28 Eric who wrote “The Very
Hungry Caterpillar” 29 Accomplice in “Romeo and
Juliet”
30 Broadway show where everyone knows the ending?
31 Country named for
a now-banned trade
32 They can be felt
33 Org. for Carl Sagan
34 “That’s odd …” 39 Rapper/producer who won
the 2018 Pulitzer for Music 42 Gets by
44 Letter in the Greek spelling of
Athens
46 Looks like a jerk
47 Driver in “House of Gucci” 48 Canceled
49 Book after II Chronicles 50 Runners’ event
51 Figs. assigned randomly
since 2011
52 Animal also known as a
catamount
54 Air France confirmation