The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 The N.C.A.A.’S Crimson Tide, to fans
5 Obsolescent devices with Rewind buttons
9 Lincoln ___ (toy set)
13 Cry from a congregation
14 Scroll through a few
books?
15 Proctored event
16 Zero, zippo, zilch
18 Hamilton’s notes
19 Couple’s 60th
anniversary [Spanish]
21 Fitting
22 A panda’s is almost
entirely bamboo
23 Saunter
26 “Aw, rats!” [Dutch,
Swedish]
31 ___ a soul (no one)
32 Contraction in “Deck the
Halls”
33 Votes into office
34 Pie ___ mode
35 Whom one might go see at “tooth hurty,” per a classic joke [Czech]
37 Cartoon collectible
38 Cubans, for example
40 Professional connections
41 Show the merits of, say
42 Goes with someone else
[German]
44 Center
45 Substance in a petri dish
46 Bud
47 “I think we’re done here” … or a hint to translating each of the four shaded words in this puzzle
54 Command-s, on a Mac
55 Rhode Island, with “the”
56 Furniture giant whose
name is an acronym
57 “You win”
58 Prep school about an
hour by train from London
59 Lifetime, for the U.S.
Supreme Court
60 You might give
something up for this
61 Easy targets
DOWN
1 Word after rock or rubber
2 Mine, in Marseille
3 Parent company of Facebook
4 Odd exception
5 Nullify
6 Bovine : cow :: corvine : ___
7 Family-friendly, as films
8 Sketchy behavior
9 Phrase sung 36 times in a 1970 Beatles hit
10 Plow-pulling pair
11 Clique
12 Sort of cellphone text, for
short
14 Collapsible camping gear 17 “Uh-uh”
20 Taken care of, with
“with”
23 “It was all ___!” (“They
were just pretending!”)
24 Elder Obama daughter
25 Singer/activist Billy
26 Cacophony
27 Actor John, Sean or
Mackenzie
28 Secretly included, in a
way
29 Things filling an agenda
30 Letter-shaped opening in
hardware
32 Electrical transformer
named for its creator
35 Is tiresomely long, as a
meeting
36 Gerund suffix
39 All for one and one for all
41 Widens, as a pupil
43 Prognosticator
44 They get walked all over
46 Long (for)
47 One of more than 14,000
in Minnesota
48 At any point
49 Kings of ___ (“Sex on
Fire” quartet)
50 Stick around awhile
51 Facts and figures
52 Perched on
53 Desires
54 Command just before
giving a dog treat