NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 “Out!”
6 Area of a room, e.g. 10 Characters in the
“Iliad”?
15 2010 biodrama co-starring 18-Across
18 See 15-Across 19 Frustrated and betting emotionally, in poker lingo 20 Skaggs of bluegrass
fame
21 Trailblazing
astronaut Jemison 22 Make, with “out” 23 Some daring
ascents 25 1970s-‘80s TV character to whom the phrase “jumped the shark” originally referred
26 Barrett who co-founded Pink Floyd
27 Floats
29 No good at all 30 Deems proper 32 Greek peak 33 Cousin of “Skol!” 35 Inspiration for van
Gogh
37 Upset
38 Big source for entertainment news
41 Glowing signs 42 Ran over
43 Not over the
Internet, to a texter 46 Cardboard recycling
unit
47 Get slick, in a way 49 “I never knew!” 50 Existential question 51 Moriarty who wrote “Nine Perfect Strangers”
54 Match points? 56 1995 alternative rock album by 59-Across that is one of the bestselling albums of all time
59 See 56-Across 60 Where orders come from
61 Actress Taylor-joy of “The Queen’s Gambit”
62 “Peace”
DOWN
1 The Hawks of the N.C.A.A., familiarly 2 Alternative to smooth, at the grocery
3 Back from vacation, say
4 Sweet Italian bubbly
5 Does drudgery, oldstyle
6 Go for a lap?
7 Form couples 8 Active volcano near Peru’s dormant Pichu Pichu 9 “Squawk on the Street” airer
10 “Just doing my job” 11 One that gives a hoot
12 Burns poem that opens “Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim’rous beastie”
13 Home of the only active diamond mine in the U.S. 14 Morally repulsive, in
slang
16 Tallest freestanding structure in the Western Hemisphere 17 Startled cry 24 Misses 25 Choreographer Bob 28 “___ Nacht”
(Christmas carol) 29 Cut next to the ribs 30 River spanned by the Pont Alexandre III
31 Slippery swimmers 33 Genesee Brewery
offering
34 Ruffian
36 Lighting of the Olympic flame, and others
39 That’s what you
think!
40 “It was worth a
shot”
41 Classic arcade game in which players can be “on fire”
43 Set on fire 44 Industry with lots to
offer
45 ___ Newman, author of “Heather Has Two Mommies” 48 Ink, so to speak 51 Gifts at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport
52 Fingers
53 ___ mater
55 Sports sticker? 57 Serengeti grazer 58 Aunt, in Arequipa