The New York Times Crossword
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1 Architect of the Museum of Islamic Art
4 Shirley Bassey and Angela Lansbury, for two
9 It can come up to your neck in the winter
14 When the moment is
right
16 Modify
17 Shakes a leg
18 Prefix with media
19 Kooky, as a scheme
20 James ___ Award
(culinary honor)
21 Symbols of slipperiness
22 Bewildered
25 Actress Long
26 Parisian possessive
27 Bakery chain that began as the Saint Louis Bread Co.
29 When said three times,
2012 Taylor Swift song
30 Orbiter until 2001
31 Streamlined type of
baleen whale
33 Jake’s love interest in
“The Sun Also Rises”
35 Overcooks, and then
some
36 Can opener?
39 Yahoo
40 Way to go
41 Puffed-up
43 They get booted at the office
46 Personal pronoun in
Prussia
47 Beatle who wrote and
sang “Don’t Pass Me By”
48 Org. with the highestcirculating magazine in the U.S.
49 Travel across the pond,
perhaps
51 “That just might work!”
54 End of “Hedda Gabler,”
e.g.
55 Dive boat feature
56 Shiny material in some
guitars
57 Takes steps to compete?
58 The ___ day
59 Result of a firing?
60 Language suffix
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1 Last sign
2 It may have one or two sides
3 Things to live up to
4 Something to work on
5 Crowning
6 Resident of ancient Crete
7 Pollution source, say
8 Harden
9 Carnival music
10 One may be left at the
scene of a crime
11 Martin Luther King Jr.,
for one 12 What follows certain
deadlocks
13 With this answer’s number, a hit horror movie franchise
15 Supermarket lines, for
short?
23 Sign of a hit
24 Bit of dangly jewelry
27 The Panthers of the
A.C.C.
28 Onetime N.B.A. star
Metta Sandiford-___
29 Word with crowd or
channel
30 “Breaking Bad” drug
32 Jetty
33 Edgar Allan Poe story,
with “The”
34 Fix, as the roof of a hut
37 Bio class subject
38 They help you focus
40 Leonardo ___ (Fibonacci
alias)
42 Violate, as etiquette
43 Instruction to a kayaker
44 Spots for tadpoles
45 Like the population of
Greenland
47 Divide
48 2000 Tony-winning title
role for Heather Headley
50 Lose steam
52 Downwind
53 Fancy marbles
55 Spanish title: Abbr.