Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The New York Times Crossword

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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

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