NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Put up, as a

painting 5 Little devils 9 Prejudiced person 14 Banned apple

spray 15 Horse with a foal 16 One end of a

battery 17 Excerpt shown on

TV 19 Put money up

front to play poker 20 Kimono sash 21 Ballot 22 Iron-fisted ruler 23 Wastebasket,

jocularly 26 Like Mother

Hubbard 27 One of the Big Five movie studios, once 28 Status ___ 31 Partner of take 33 Visitor at a railroad

museum, say 36 Ripped 37 Studies at the last

minute 38 Laughfest 39 Product of a

backwoods still 41 Chunks of bread

for stew, e.g. 42 Holiday ___ 43 Full complement

of toes 44 Hit the slopes 45 What a boor sorely

lacks 51 Comment 54 Writer Ephron 55 Prefix with liberal

or conservative 56 Intestinal bug 57 Appropriate exclamation upon solving this puzzle? 59 Push may come to

it 60 Peewee pup 61 S,M ,L or XL 62 Schlepped 63 “So what ___ is

new?” 64 Skin treatment at a

spa

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1 Mayhem 2 Proof you weren’t anywhere near the murder 3 Very bottom 4 Coll. senior’s test 5 “Brr-r-r!” 6 Island nation for which a distinctive cat is named 7 Nosy Parker 8 Follower of Aug. 9 Ancient Hanging

Gardens city 10 Become

accustomed (to) 11 “The Naked Maja”

painter 12 Thor’s father 13 Protection for an

outdoor wedding 18 Small egg 22 Polynesian

carvings 24 Witches’ gathering 25 Building skeleton 28 One-liner 29 Subjects of a topsecret government cover-up, some believe 30 Many a time, in

poetry 31 “Continue …” 32 Clothes presser 33 Lopez with the 1963 hit “If I Had a Hammer” 34 Wasn’t colorfast 35 Swelter 36 “I’d rather not

know,” in a text 37 Not carry on, as

bags 40 Illustrious, as a

past 41 “Bottoms up!” 44 Mountain Dew

alternative 45 Soothing ointment 46 Make void 47 What banks always have interest in? 48 Any movie at the Sundance Film Festival 49 Grab 50 Four houses + 1 in

Monopoly 51 The first “R” in

R&R 52 Verbal comeback? 53 Purely academic 57 Wrath 58 Psychic power, for

short