NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 “Isn’t it strange?” 9 1, 2, 3, 4 … 11, 12, 14, etc.
15 Natural ingredient
in mouthwash 16 Record at the
register
17 Times table? 18 Juice
19 Bootlegger’s foe 20 Award winners 22 Modern health risk,
informally 24 Composer whose name is one letter off from an international peace grp.
25 How model airplane parts are sold
27 Subject of Shakespeare’s line “Come, thou mortal wretch”
28 Closers of some
boxes
32 ___/hr. (power
meas.) 33 Condescending
term of address 35 Couscous tidbit 37 Dark
39 Shipment to a mill 40 Ally of Britain during the Seven Years’ War
41 Human Genome
Project org. 42 1980s cable
competitor of CMT 43 Nonvital surgery
target 44 Book before Deut. 46 Finale of a radio
countdown 48 Having a little of
this, a little of that 51 Bird that sometimes sings in a duet
52 Cal Ripken Jr. or Pee
Wee Reese
55 Latin word that’s
12-Down backward 57 Joint
58 Einstein referred to his endorsement of it as “one great mistake”
60 Neutral at worst 61 Longtime locale of
Mideast conflict 62 “Nevertheless …” 63 90s kid?
DOWN
1 In ___ of 2 Uncomplicated 3 Bill and Hillary Clinton have each won one
4 Judith who was the second American woman in space 5 Part of a box set, maybe
6 Part of a foot 7 Alpha ___ Minoris (the North Star)
8 With 45-Down, Disney song written by Elton John and Tim Rice 9 Maverick 10 Machine in a particle physics lab, in brief
11 Like some ranking
systems
12 Despotic boss 13 Challenges for
Roombas
14 ___-fi
21 Extra shot at the
slots
23 Lead agent on
“NCIS”
25 28-pound debut of
1981
26 Topic in artificial
intelligence 29 What’s more 30 Annual mass event in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert 31 Blockage unblocker 34 Humdingers
36 In any possible way,
in dialect
38 Titular android of early anime cartoons
45 See 8-Down 47 Offer in advance 49 What unexpected
problems may do 50 Foes of the Romans 52 “So ___?”
53 Stock market
recommendation 54 Expert on feet 56 Last words?
57 3x platinum Kendrick Lamar song with the lyric “I was born like this” 59 Big Sky Conference
sch.