The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Enlivens
7 Salutes with flutes?
13 Tried really hard
14 “Leading us off ...” 15 W.N.B.A. All-Star Alyssa 16 Crushed-ice dessert with a
reduplicative name
17 “___ been wondering ...” 18 Suffix for a long fund-raiser 20 La Brea substance 21 Three-___ sloth
22 Study of insects, for short 24 Item that might be left on a
hotel pillow
25 One-named “Queen of All
Media”
27 Counterpart of sow
28 Scores 100 on
29 Its capital is Tripoli 30 Shellfish that may be served
cooked or raw
32 Curd-based drink
33 Aviate
34 Rosters
38 Black-and-white breakfast
cereal
40 Language in which “hello” is
“kia ora”
41 “___ está usted?” 44 Black-and-white whale 45 “No idea” gesture
46 Country that borders Yemen 47 “The Color Purple” character
___ Avery
48 Hartford’s state: Abbr. 49 Went unused
50 “Yeah, that didn’t escape my
notice”
52 Curved path 53 “Ow!”
57 Pre-cable TV appurtenance 60 Establishment that serves “purr”-over coffee? 61 “Living Single” creator ___ Lee Bowser
62 Not being manually
operated
63 Agree to something
DOWN
1 Winter clock setting in Calif. 2 Addis Ababa’s land
3 “A closed mouth doesn’t get
fed” and others
4 Not too long from now 5 Campus setting in the story collection “My Monticello,” in brief
6 Nuisance
7 Up to, informally
8 Spanish for “gold”
9 ___ Wednesday
10 Cause of some cling
11 New Orleans university 12 Cricket and squash, for two 14 Giant narrative that may be about giants (and elves as well) 16 Tree whose pods contain a
sweet-tasting pulp
19 Luke Cage’s title in his first
comics appearance 21 Turnpike payment
23 Choose
24 Chanteuse with charttopping hits found at the tops of 4-, 14-, 16- and 19Down
26 Eyebrows and beards 31 Stately trees
35 Delta Sigma Theta, for one 36 Shorten
37 Exit or Yield
39 Dawn goddess
41 Rival of Sam’s Club 42 Resident of Nebraska’s
largest city
43 Hakuna ___ (Swahili phrase
meaning “no problems”) 51 Methods
54 Fort Worth sch. whose
mascot is SuperFrog
55 All ___ and no cattle 56 Mysterious sky sighting 58 “Deliver Us From ___”
(2003 rom-com)
59 Plural article in French