The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

Travel requirement, at times

5 Where the 10 countries with the lowest median age are all located

11 Sounds of surprise

14 Book before

Romans

15 “King James”

16 Word before nail or

after steel

17 Cluster, as of grass

18 Product of volcanic

activity

19 Certain grueling

race, informally

20 Factory ___

22 Moccasins, but not

oxfords

24 Voice of doom

27 It’s a me problem

28 End up OK

29 Boring bit

31 Not forbidden

32 “A Doll’s House”

playwright

33 Quattro preceder

36 “Joking!”

37 Secret traders

38 Father on “Modern

Family”

39 Prof’s helpers

40 Mary, Queen of

___

41 Roman fountain

name

42 Digital money

43 Van Gogh

masterpiece

44 One daying for a

cause

1

47 Leave a mark on?

49 Put up

51 Japanese exporter

of diesel engines

52 Coastal inlet

53 “___ Fideles”

55 Letters that go in both blanks of ___ ___tofferson

58 Jug unit: Abbr.

59 Comfy shoe

60 Bank note made of

pure cotton fiber

61 Bow-making

timber

62 “Enthusiasm is the mother of

_ _ _”: Ralph Waldo Emerson

63 One may ask for a

dinner preference

DOWN

1 Acid container,

maybe

2 Hosp. area

3 Friar known for his patronage of animals

4 What had a major impact on this puzzle’s theme?

5 Notwithstanding

6 Guinness records,

typically

7 Some handoff recipients in football, for short

8 Some investments,

in brief

9 Boston, Amherst

and others

10 Immune response

trigger

11 “Great” 10thcentury emperor

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12 Features of many

ceratopsians

13 Something possibly triggered during a mass extinction event

21 Blue material

23 “___ favor”

24 Accelerated H.S.

English course

25 First dog on an

orbital spaceflight

26 Novelist King who wrote “Caretakers” and “One on One”

30 Applications

32 Some W.S.J. topics

33 Writer’s reference … or what each row of shaded letters is missing?

34 It helps keep a

tight ship tight

35 Beethoven’s “Für

___”

37 Spooked by

38 Annual

architecture award

40 Ancient method of encipherment with a message wrapped around a cylinder

41 Pants, but half off?

42 List follower

43 Newspaper

supplement

44 Come together

45 Common typeface

46 Ruler’s

dimensions?

48 Crystalline mineral deposits in some caves

50 Like Beethoven, by

his mid-40s

54 West Coast airport

code

56 Music producer Gotti who worked with Ja Rule and J.LO

57 Soak (up)