The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Travel requirement, at times 5 Where the 10 countries with the lowest median age are all located
11 Sounds of surprise
14 Book before Romans
15 “King James”
16 Word before nail or after steel 17 Cluster, as of grass
18 Product of volcanic activity 19 Certain grueling race,
informally
20 Factory ___
22 Moccasins, but not oxfords 24 Voice of doom
27 It’s a me problem
28 End up OK
29 Boring bit
31 Not forbidden
32 “A Doll’s House” playwright 33 Quattro preceder
36 “Joking!”
37 Secret traders
38 Father on “Modern Family” 39 Prof’s helpers
40 Mary, Queen of ___ 41 Roman fountain name 42 Digital money
43 Van Gogh masterpiece
44 One daying for a cause 47 Leave a mark on?
49 Put up
51 Japanese exporter of diesel
engines
52 Coastal inlet
53 “___ Fideles”
55 Letters that go in both blanks
of ___ ___tofferson
58 Jug unit: Abbr.
59 Comfy shoe
60 Bank note made of pure
cotton fiber 61 Bow-making timber 62 “Enthusiasm is the mother of ___”:
Ralph Waldo Emerson 63 One may ask for a dinner
preference
DOWN
1 Acid container, maybe
2 Hosp. area
3 Friar known for his patronage
of animals
4 What had a major impact on
this puzzle’s theme? 5 Notwithstanding
6 Guinness records, typically 7 Some handoff recipients in
football, for short
8 Some investments, in brief 9 Boston, Amherst and others 10 Immune response trigger 11 “Great” 10th-century emperor 12 Features of many
ceratopsians
13 Something possibly triggered
during a mass extinction event 21 Blue material
23 “___ favor”
24 Accelerated H.S. English
course 25 First dog on an orbital
spaceflight
26 Novelist King who wrote “Caretakers” and “One on One”
30 Applications
32 Some W.S.J. topics
33 Writer’s reference … or what each row of shaded letters is missing?
34 It helps keep a tight ship tight 35 Beethoven’s “Für ___” 37 Spooked by
38 Annual architecture award 40 Ancient method of encipherment with a message wrapped around a cylinder 41 Pants, but half off?
42 List follower
43 Newspaper supplement 44 Come together
45 Common typeface
46 Ruler’s dimensions? 48 Crystalline mineral deposits in
some caves
50 Like Beethoven, by his mid
40s
54 West Coast airport code 56 Music producer Gotti who
worked with Ja Rule and J.Lo 57 Soak (up)