NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD by Wi l l Shor t z

ACROSS

1 Wagner heroine 4 Eagerly expectant 8 Street ___ 12 Opportunity

maker? 14 Hello and

farewell 15 With 37-Down,

complete 16 Facile 17 Start of a brainteaser whose answer appears in order, from top to bottom, in this puzzle’s circled squares 19 City in the San

Gabriel Valley 21 Complete 22 John XI’S

successor 23 War of 1812

battle site 24 Schedule abbr. 27 Part two of the

brainteaser 30 One of the

Chaplins 31 Home state

of the 1964 and 2008 Rep. presidential candidates 32 Part three of the

brainteaser 38 Debate (with) 39 10th- to 12thcentury Chinese dynasty 40 Part four of the

brainteaser 48 Muckraker

Tarbell 49 Harsh 50 1944 Sartre play 51 Lays the

groundwork for? 52 Inventory 53 End of the

brainteaser 57 Harem rooms 58 Nifty 59 Trifled (with) 60 Spanish muralist 61 Russia/ Ukraine’s Sea of ___ 62 They can be batted and rolled 63 ’60s radical grp.

DOWN

1 Communist Friedrich 2 Rudy with a megaphone 3 “The End of Eternity” author 4 Zoological wings 5 Certain cat 6 Start of many a bumper sticker 7 Peppermint ___ 8 At the home of 9 Old bus maker 10 Suffix with

Euclid 11 W.W. II gen. 13 Greater than 14 10,000, for 4, in

base 10, e.g. 18 Person who’s groundbreaking? 20 Curtain fabric 23 Online merchant 24 When tripled, a

1970 war movie 25 One who may

say “I say” a lot 26 Woodworker’s

tool 28 Blowup: Abbr. 29 Cry from a crib 32 Popular tablet 33 Zola best seller 34 Coastal flier 35 Half a strawful,

say 36 Like a house that’s of interest to ghost hunters 37 See 15-Across 38 Subj. of three of the six Nobel Prizes 41 Aerosol target 42 As yet 43 Restaurant

gofer 44 “How to”

explanations 45 Rust and quartz 46 Person with a conical hat, maybe 47 Bikini

explosions 51 Onetime show

for John Candy 52 Composition of

Polynésie 53 ___ sense 54 Part of a French

face 55 ___ Tomé 56 “g2g” follower