The Riverside Press-Enterprise
The New York Times Crossword
By Grace Warrington and Greg Warrington
ACROSS 1 6 10
Put down
Help (out)
Life phases, in social media lingo
14 Katey of “Married
... With Children”
15 International chain whose name can be a prefix
16 Weather the storm
17 Not take any
chances
19 “No ___”
20 Disavowed
MI6 agent in the “Mission: Impossible” franchise
21 _ _ _ buco
22 Sister of Castor
and Pollux
23 They’re done on
the fly
25 Didn’t beat
26 Prefix with -gram
27 Connection
between names
28 “Listen …”
29 “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” e.g.
31 In the nick of time
32 Series that begins on the ice planet Pagodon, with “The”
33 Possible (but extremely unlikely) setting for a double albatross
34 Sign
35 Nutrition fig.
38 How salmon is served in nigiri sushi, but not in sashimi
39 Large wine cask
41 Something a rival
may throw
42 Set of rounds
43 “Alas!”
44 Tiny scrap
45 Big ticket
purchase?
47 The Phoenix of the
NCAA
48 Noble figure
49 Pioneer in I.Q.
testing
50 Muralist who was
a colleague of Dalí
51 Boy’s name consisting of an English word followed by its Spanish equivalent
52 Take
DOWN
1 Shoot for the
moon
2 Crumple
3 Writer of the 2009 autobiography “Open”
4 “Open wide”
5 Boy’s name that’s an anagram of 9-Down
6 Video game
climax
Edited by Will Shortz No. 0127
7 Collect
8 Modern lead-in to
mania
9 “Of course, I remember you!,” perhaps
10 Heir to the throne,
traditionally
11 Very slender
12 Hedonist’s
opposite
13 Workers who must be quick with their hands
18 Experienced a
pregnant pause?
22 Relaxing baths
24 Affliction treated in newborns with phototherapy
25 Giving quarters,
say
28 How one might emerge with a victory
29 Secret lover?
30 Murmur
31 Character who’s heard but not seen
32 Way down below?
33 Floral
arrangements
35 Fix in a museum,
maybe
36 ___ bug (longlimbed predatory insect)
37 Start of a
Christmas hymn
39 Collect, collect,
collect
40 Pickup line
42 Hit on the noggin
45 Word with power
or change
46 Org. concerned
with traveling