NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Shaggy dog 7 It’s gone over with poles 14 African country with a namesake lake 15 Rival of Paris 17 Contemptu
ously bold 18 Self-doubting 19 Extra desire? 20 Prefix with
-zoic 22 O.K. for
another season 23 Stop going 24 “Fiddlesticks!” 25 Eastern
melody 26 Like many a romance hero 28 Raiders org.? 31 Call ___ 32 Secret weapon 35 1978 sequel set in a shopping mall 37 It might pop up
at a nursery 38 Crumb 39 These, in
Toulon 40 Charge 44 Far from whole 46 Like refreshing
agua 47 Fellow in a counting-out rhyme? 48 Senator of Watergate fame 50 “South Park” co-creator Stone 51 Hustle 52 Like four illfated popes, it’s said 54 Spike 56 Where things might pop up in a nursery 57 He took Rehnquist’s seat 58 Home of
Mandalay 59 Ones given money to waste?
DOWN
1 Showed no hurry in getting somewhere 2 Breakfast bowlful 3 The endocrine system, essentially 4 Break a pledge? 5 State at a spectacle 6 It might be hard-pressed to get assistance 7 Expert on forgery? 8 Vegas game 9 Hookups 10 Razz 11 Inside trouble 12 Peak east of
Captain Cook 13 Killer source material for a comedian, say 16 Pollution
concern 21 Invitation
stipulation 24 It might be put
on a blanket 27 Atlanta cager 28 Fundamentally 29 Who “are coming,” in a historical declaration 30 Part of a Freddy Krueger costume 33 Math ordinal 34 One meter
start? 35 Developing
area 36 Goings-on 37 Patron saint of the Catholic Church 41 Response to
“Don’t panic!” 42 Hands-on
position? 43 Like the beast in Hercules’ first labor 45 Diminutive for
Baryshnikov 46 Radio knob 49 Showdown
time 50 Southwest city founded by Mormon pioneers 51 Run-in 53 Book before
Deut. 55 Old long
distance letters