The New York Times
No. 1121
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.