NEW YORK TImES CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 “House” actor Omar 5 Remove the husk from, as corn 10 Galifianakis of “The

Hangover” 14 Stead 15 Nearsighted Mr. ___ 16 Grades 1-12 17 Deborah of “The King

and I” 18 Funny DeGeneres 19 Uprising 20 Job position in which

no one lasts long 23 Not working 24 Outside of a

watermelon 25 The “D” of PRNDL 28 Alan of “Argo” 31 Replacement for the

franc and mark 32 Dog or dogtooth 34 Command to a dog 37 Seemingly mad

Muslim monk 40 12-mo. periods 41 British P.M. after

Churchill 42 Eye amorously 43 Extra-fat 44 Building add-on 45 Theda of the silents 47 The “A” of N.B.A.:

Abbr. 49 Yarn-making device 55 Abstract artist Joan 56 Muscat native 57 Part of a buzzing

swarm 59 One with millions of

followers 60 Writer Joyce Carol

___ 61 Submachine guns 62 Chromosome

component 63 “Who ___ what evil

lurks …” 64 Sped

DOWN 1 Antlered animal 2 Boardwalk adjunct 3 Father, in France 4 Reality show in which contestants get “voted off the island” 5 Odor 6 Cut in two 7 Citrus hybrid 8 Filmmaking brother Joel or Ethan 9 “King ___” 10 Take close aim 11 “March comes in like

___ …” 12 Part of a guitar riff 13 Any top 10 song, say 21 Praiseful poem 22 Not as moist 25 Moist, as morning

grass 26 Germany’s ___ Valley 27 Flower in a van Gogh

painting 28 It may be acute or

obtuse 29 Car-pooler’s need 30 Midpoint between a

midi and a mini 32 Mention in a footnote,

say 33 Bugs in “A Bug’s Life” 34 Leo or Libra 35 Capri, e.g. 36 ___ Mix (party staple) 38 Jacob’s father-in-law,

in the Bible 39 “Slaughterhouse-Five”

novelist 43 Bird on Cal Ripken’s

cap 44 Volcanic emission 45 “I Am the Walrus,” for the Beatles’ “Hello, Goodbye” 46 Chef’s wear 47 Vice president under

Nixon 48 Holey cheese 50 Kindle competitor 51 One-named

supermodel 52 Grp. with forces in

Afghanistan 53 ___ Ferrari, Italian

automaker 54 Den 55 Russian jet 58 Mao ___-tung