NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

2014-03-18 - by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 “___ be my pleasure” 4 Like some doughnuts 10 Sweets 13 ___ culpa 14 Ford featured on

“The Waltons” 15 Piano, on a music

score 16 3, 4 or 5 on a golf

hole, typically 17 Say that neither

side benefited 19 “___ stupid

question …” 21 Mai ___ 22 Año starter 23 Strand 27 Playwright O’Neill 28 Homer’s father on

“The Simpsons” 29 Pilot’s announcement, for short 30 Exert, as energy 31 Monopoly square between Connecticut Avenue and St. Charles Place 33 Words of

estimation 34 Start being printed 37 Early Ron Howard

role 40 Hula dancers

shake them 41 Edwards or

Andrews: Abbr. 45 Coffee dispenser 46 ___-X 47 Autonomous part

of Ukraine 48 Join a community

again 52 F.D.R.’s affliction 53 Bank offering with

a pct. yield 54 Season to drink

58-Across 55 Extensive enumeration … or what’s formed by the ends of 17-, 23-, 34- and 48Across 58 See 54-Across 59 Shamu, for one 60 Be on the

precipice 61 Pull (on) 62 Book after Ezra:

Abbr. 63 Reason for an

inquisition 64 Ave. crossers

DOWN

1 Stabs 2 Comb into a beehive, e.g. 3 Hardly a period of enlightenment 4 Maker of the

Yukon S.U.V. 5 More than dislike 6 Two-time loser to

Dwight 7 1983 Woody Allen mockumentary 8 Inventor Whitney

9 Suited to be a suitor 10 More than a pack

rat 11 In a way 12 ___ degree 15 Nor. neighbor 18 Hathaway of “Les

Misérables” 20 Take an eye for an

eye for 24 Within: Prefix 25 Unpleasant discoveries in soup 26 Ming of the N.B.A. 31 31-Across, slangily 32 Form of many a

modern game 33 Become inflexible 35 Civil War winning

side 36 “You bet!” 37 Your and my 38 Make, as a meal 39 Connected with

someone 42 Quantities 43 Left a military

formation 44 No-goodniks 46 Electrical system 47 Goes after 49 Radius neighbor 50 Persian Gulf

vessel 51 Too-often

repeated 55 Chaney of the

silents 56 “___-haw!” 57 Give it a go