Crossword Edited by Will Shortz No. 0924
ACROSS
1 What’s not to
like?
10 Big ink
purveyor
15 The singer
Björk, for one
16 Lustrous shell
compound
17 Black hairstyle with squareshaped sections
18 Yet to be
processed
19 Cabinet department with a buffalo on its emblem
20 Place for fast
growth
21 Valuable
carriers
23 Green symbol on Rotten Tomatoes
27 Sliding ___
28 Ran off (with) 30 “___ Possible” (2000s animated series)
31 Give kudos to
35 Quadrennial
bonus
37 Daily in Paris
39 Some pubgoers
40 Little drawing?
42 Bearer of the earth in Iroquois creation stories
43 Choice cut
45 Scanner feature
46 “Well, there’s a
surprise!”
51 Pulling down
52 Paid athletes
with day jobs
57 Well lit?
58 Aircraft with low
drag
59 Not requiring much attention, say
60 Help on wheels 61 Sibilant sobriquet for “Summertime” singer Sarah Vaughan
62 Hit from behind
DOWN
1 Nickname in
Israeli politics
2 Milton Friedman’s subj.
3 It might end in
an emoji
4 River through
Bohemia
5 Like many a documentary film
6 [Live!]
7 Lesson for an advanced language learner
8 Component of many sandstone features in the Southwest
9 Hospital drama
sets, in brief
10 What genes do,
biologically
11 Medicare Advantage, by another name
12 Apparatus with a harness and flippers
13 Get to eat
14 List for a
survivalist
20 Skateboarder’s
wear
22 Skateboarder’s
apparatus
23 Successfully
convince
PUZZLE BY STELLA ZAWISTOWSKI
24 “No contest,”
for one
25 Important calculation for a
weightlifter
26 Galaxy array
29 “I’m ___ myself
here, but …”
31 Dance around?
32 Snacks for
some beetles
33 Waiting for an assignment, maybe
34 It’s not a good
look
36 Festive season
38 More than a
few
41 Find satisfaction, slangily
43 Sunday best
44 Grp. of Pelicans
46 Some prayer
leaders
47 Sicilian word that roughly translates as “swagger” 48 Actor Claude of “B.J. and the Bear”
49 Copter cousins
50 Affaire de coeur
53 Not just live in
the present
54 £ : pound sterling :: R : ___
55 ___-over
56 Pip
58 ___ Mediterráneo