The New York Times Crossword

Answers below

ACROSS

1 Set a price of

4 Recede

7 Arrange in folds 12 They may hang out at

pubs

15 Brendan of “Crash” 16 Plain as day

17 Way things look to the

public, informally 18 Buffalo’s N.H.L. team 19 Puffed snack food 21 Give the go-ahead 22 Revered Muslim 23 Workers in puffy white

hats

25 Start of many young

rappers’ names 26 Intrinsically

30 2011 U.S. Open champ

McIlroy

31 Hazard for takeoffs

and landings 32 Astronomical streaker 33 Be behind, in a way 34 Warrior

36 One of two in Princess

Leia’s hairstyle 37 Thornton ___, “Our

Town” playwright 39 Tit for ___

40 First lady Truman 41 Daniel who wrote

“Robinson Crusoe” 42 “The Star-Spangled

Banner” contraction 43 Key worker at a restaurant?

44 Sources of saliva and

sweat 46 Slip up

47 Game that requires

bending

50 Rude rejection

53 Duds

54 Sticker on green products

56 Means of climbing

over rural fences 57 They can’t lose 58 One-on-one pupil 59 Target of some football passes

60 Spike of interest in

movies?

DOWN

1 Some kindergarten

lessons

2 Ward of “CSI: NY” 3 Mascot on cookie

boxes

4 Long-legged waders 5 Florida gridders, in

headlines

6 A/C measure, for

short

7 Forrest Gump’s favorite soft drink 8 Gradually increase,

with “up”

9 Source of a big percentage of U.S. auto imports 10 Hunt-and-___ typing 11 Gaelic tongue 13 Make thinner, as air 14 Rulers, e.g. & or what the letters in 3-, 7-, 27-and 34-Down all have when written in all caps

15 Points of convergence 20 Ailing

22 Target of a plumber’s

snake

23 Throng

24 Mandel of “America’s

Got Talent”

27 David Bowie hit with the lyric “You’ve torn your dress, your face is a mess” 28 Boozehound 29 Physicist Mach of

Mach number fame 31 Many a Christmas tree 32 Convened

34 “Be my guest!” 35 Blackens

38 Group on top of a

loose football

40 Bill for a 28-Down 42 Yoko often seen in

sunglasses

43 Like some brides or

threats

45 Bellicose Greek god 47 Persist

48 Rebuke to Brutus 49 Going ___ (bickering) 50 Brought into the

world

51 Ration, with “out” 52 Conditional word 55 Line that an actor

waits to hear