The News Herald (Willoughby, OH)
The New York Times Crossword
No. 1020
ACROSS 1 “And there you have it!” 9 Small ammo 15 1999 prequel that grossed over a billion dollars, familiarly 16 Obscure knowledge 17 Iran-contra business 18 Chucks 19 Cut 20 Things to 19-Across 22 Helps in a way one shouldn’t 23 Twerps 25 “If I were a betting person, I’d say …” 27 Play with strings 29 Tries to win 30 Hoedown participant 31 Inverse function in trigonometry 33 Things non-PC people buy? 34 Symbol for a member of Anonymous 37 Things often found by the dessert table 38 Dated women? 39 Down 40 It changes one’s perspective 41 Buck ___, first African-American coach in Major League Baseball 44 Time off for an N.F.L. team 46 One letter of “NATO” in the NATO alphabet 48 Locale for much of “The Da Vinci Code” 49 Arabic name that sounds like a reply of agreement 53 Rocker Gramm of Foreigner 54 Ominous parting words 56 “Today” co-host beginning in 2007 58 Book of selected texts 59 Frequent locale in the comic strip “Andy Capp” 60 Things hashed and mashed, informally 61 Places for nightstands
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1 Lintels, e.g. 2 Blacksmiths’ wear 3 Chucklehead 4 Chucklehead 5 Catch a wave, in a way 6 Conception 7 About 8 Decorate elegantly 9 “Enough of this!” 10 Prepares, in a way, as chicken 11 Sources of labor pains? 12 Really enjoy oneself 13 Kind of mind 14 Curtain decorations 21 Longhorn rival 24 Appeals to a higher authority? 26 Playground retort 28 Big name in digital security 29 User-editable internet pages 32 High-class 33 High points 34 Where the rules are unclear 35 Be malnourished 36 Some holiday decorations 37 Plug-in point
40 ___ ape (gibbon)
42 Digital storage service
43 Who wrote “He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened”
45 “Salomé” playwright
47 Easily fooled sorts 50 “Grand, ungodly, godlike man,” in literature
51 Exclusive
52 No longer anonymous, for short
55 Hosp. parts
57 Butterfly ___ (fish)
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