new york times crossword
ACROSS
1 “And there you have it!” 9 Small ammo
15 1999 prequel that grossed over a billion dollars, familiarly 16 Obscure knowledge 17 Iran-contra business 18 Chucks
19 Cut
20 Things to 19-Across 22 Helps in a way
one shouldn’t 23 Twerps
25 “If I were a betting
person, I’d say …” 27 Play with strings 29 Tries to win 30 Hoedown
participant
31 Inverse function
in trigonometry 33 Things non-PC
people buy?
34 Symbol for a member
of Anonymous 37 Things often found
by the dessert table 38 Dated women? 39 Down
40 It changes one’s
perspective
41 Buck ___, first AfricanAmerican coach in Major League Baseball 44 Time off for an
N.F.L. team
46 One letter of “NATO” in
the NATO alphabet 48 Locale for much of
“The Da Vinci Code” 49 Arabic name that sounds like a reply of agreement 53 Rocker Gramm of Foreigner 54 Ominous parting words 56 “Today” co-host beginning in 2007 58 Book of selected texts 59 Frequent locale in the comic strip “Andy Capp”
60 Things hashed and mashed, informally 61 Places for nightstands
DOWN
1 Lintels, e.g. 2 Blacksmiths’ wear 3 Chucklehead 4 Chucklehead
5 Catch a wave, in a way 6 Conception
7 About
8 Decorate elegantly 9 “Enough of this!” 10 Prepares, in a way, as chicken 11 Sources of labor pains? 12 Really enjoy oneself 13 Kind of mind 14 Curtain decorations 21 Longhorn rival 24 Appeals to a higher authority? 26 Playground retort 28 Big name in digital security 29 User-editable internet
pages
32 High-class
33 High points
34 Where the rules
are unclear
35 Be malnourished 36 Some holiday
decorations
37 Plug-in point
40 ___ ape (gibbon) 42 Digital storage service 43 Who wrote “He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened” 45 “Salomé” playwright 47 Easily fooled sorts 50 “Grand, ungodly, godlike man,” in literature 51 Exclusive
52 No longer anonymous, for short
55 Hosp. parts 57 Butterfly ___ (fish)