The New York Times Crossword

Edited by Will Shortz No. 0911

ACROSS

1 ___ cheese (cheese that isn’t yours, in a classic joke)

6 Camera type, in

brief

9 Chef Ming ___, whose last name is hidden in “condiments aisle”

13 Was sore

14 Layer of paint

16 Going ___

(squabbling)

17 *What might be kneaded in the kitchen

19 Abstract artist

Joan

20 Satirizes

21 In a spooky

manner

23 Kentucky Derby and Indianapolis 500

25 A tough _ _ _ to

swallow

26 Physicist Einstein

29 Taken care of, on

an invoice stamp

31 Savings plan

option, for short

34 Poke fun at

35 Lacking originality

36 Many a Scott

Joplin tune

37 Pants holderupper

38 Flights of fancy

39 Pioneer in digital

recording

40 Certain knee tissue, for short Obtains

41

42 ___ tag (game

with target vests)

43 “OTOH …”

44 Focus of many an

engagement photo

45 One-named “Queen of Tejano Music”

46 Death notice, in

brief

48 Bone-in cut of

lamb, e.g.

50 Los Estados ___ (the U.S., in Spanish)

52 Performing a play,

say

56 Grumpy mood

57 *Person to keep an eye on for future success

59 Smooch

60 Word after tall or

tell

61 Surrounded by

62 Teensy

63 Foxy

64 Green pasta sauce

DOWN

1 Apt rhyme for

“grabs”

2 Parcel of land

3 Olympic figure

skater Nathan

4 Adjustable part of

a car seat

5 “It’s likely that …”

6 Check (out), like

competition

7 Singer Rawls or

Reed

8 Craze

9 Ethnic group of Sri

Lanka 10 Classic Maya Angelou poem … or a hint to the answers to the starred clues and the circled letters, in two different ways

11 Well-ventilated

12 “Who am ___

judge?”

15 A truly unpleasant

situation

18 Word before tape

or after tear

22 Be a passenger

24 Mattress coils

26 Chance to hit, in

baseball

27 Bloodsucking

parasite

28 *One being propelled by hot air

30 Prepares to shoot

a target

32 Black bird 33 Ancient Greek

marketplace

35 Slender

38 Do nothing during the course of, as a storm

39 “I’m listening”

41 Part of a crossword that gets filled in

42 Protective cover

for a camera

45 Beach grit

47 Teensy

49 What catches more flies than vinegar, in a saying

50 Cup or pint

51 Places for peels or

scrubs

53 Singer Tori

54 Proper fellow

55 “Cogito, ___ sum”

56 Hit the slopes

58 Everyone or

everything