The New York Times Crossword
No. 1101
ACROSS
1 What a cat’s meow might mean
9 Starchless, as some foods
15 Peak in the HawaiianEmperor seamount chain
16 1957’s “Attack of the Crab Monsters,” for one
17 Actor Sean does some things that aren’t nice
19 What Odysseus was bound to during the sirens’ song
20 Turner with many Grammys 21 Feature of some Indian music
22 Role-play
23 Sierra runners
26 Silent film star Bar a didn’ t want to leave us
34 Little shots?
35 Vintage Camaro owner’s boast?
36 ___ Day (May 1, in Hawaii)
37 Break
38 An artist might blow it
40 Carpe ___
41 Half dos
42 California’s ___ Woods National Monument
43 Firm refusal
44 Artist Édouard mistakenly proposed 11:00
48 TV detective Bosch’s former org.
49 Sites for some docs
50 Touch
53 Cut-off pants?
55 Hand over
59 Fiction al lawyer Perry cries “I give!”
63 Peninsula south of the Pyrenees
64 Differentiate
65 Explorer from
63-Across
66 1545 treatise whose rearranged letters aptly suggest 17-, 26-, 44- and 59-Across
DOWN
1 Prayer leader
2 Tamale dough
3 Rustic refuges 4 Storage ___
5 Photographer Goldin
6 Procedural flaw
7 Elmo’s turquoise amiga
8 “Life of Pi” novelist Martel
9 Trail Blazers’ org.
10 Meditation sounds
11 Rough
12 Alternative to Reebok
13 Hobbit Frodo’s cloaking device
14 Test version
18 Wild horses couldn’t drag them away, presumably
22 Some remote batteries
24 Bothers
25 Govt. health agency
26 Hum monotonously
27 Spotted scavenger
28 Printer brand
29 What’s the point?
30 Heady weapon wielded by Wonder Woman?
31 Sync up
32 “The Brandon ___ Story” (1998 documentary)
33 Handmade sign at a stadium
38 “Forrest ___”
39 Misled
40 One of five in Yahtzee
42 Underground org. of New York
43 “Dynamite” K-pop group
45 Six Flags ride named for a powerful animal
46 Lunchtime tryst
47 Entities holding property
50 Within
51 Bunyan’s ox or Hoggett’s pig
52 Applications
54 Tabula ___
55 Manilow’s “hottest spot north of Havana,” informally
56 Online zine
57 Swear to mend things?
58 “Cómo ___ usted?”
60 Minor fault
61 Long March leader
62 Where 38-Down served, for short