new YOrk TimeS crOSSwOrD
ACROSS
1 Letters meaning
“Make it snappy!” 5 Mouth-puckering 9 Sidewalk’s edge
13 Nut from Australia 15 Actress Raymonde of “Lost”
16 Wall fixture for a landline
17 Gives off, as light 18 Beetle Bailey’s superior 19 Abounds (with) 21 Stage prompt 22 Cremation vessel 23 Bathroom bar offering so-called “round-theclock” protection 25 Quilting or crossword solving, e.g.
30 Spanish rice dish 31 One-percenters
and such
34 Reddish
35 Start, as a meeting 38 Q-tip, for one
40 The “A” and “S”
of 1-Across
41 Biblical land
44 Doing sentry duty 48 Candy suckers in the form of jewelry 51 Historical period
52 “I Like ___” (1950s campaign button) 53 Science fiction writer Asimov 55 Yearns (for) 57 Make an offer for at auction 59 Trendy, much-used lingo … or a hint to the starts of 16-, 23-, 35and 48-Across 61 Barely making, with “out”
62 Postal letters,
deprecatingly 63 Location 64 Temporary rain cover
65 Chip or coin thrown in the pot
DOWN
1 Excites
2 African desert 3 Squirrel’s
stash
4 Twinge of guilt
5 ___ Mahal
6 Amo, amas, ___ … 7 Like not-quite-mashed
potatoes
8 George of the original
“Star Trek”
9 Filming device, informally 10 Monochromatic 11 Sacred ceremonies 12 Salary before bonuses
14 Actor Billy ___ Williams 15 Model 3 electric car maker
20 An “X” might “mark the spot” on one 24 Venus’s tennis doubles partner 26 Earl Grey pouch on a string
27 Needing medicine, say 28 Thousand thou
29 “At Last” singer
___ James
32 Goddess of the dawn 33 Meh
35 Stopped all
that yapping 36 Presidential son Reagan
37 ___ Jones industrial average 38 Old-fashioned writers 39 Hawaiian surfing
mecca
42 Mimicking 43 Rejections
45 Capital of Iran 46 College degree unit 47 Big inconvenience 49 Blue Ribbon brewery 50 Place to sweat it out 54 Ruler until 1917 55 Hole-making tool 56 Result of a serious head injury
58 ___ Direction
(boy band)
60 Nada