new York TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Ruler who died in 30 B.C.

10 Panic button 15 Ticket request 16 Alice with a Nobel Prize in Literature 17 Weave

18 Co-star of Wood in “The Lord of the Rings” 19 Land of ___ (where 1-Down lived) 20 Legal conclusion? 21 Doesn’t get involved 22 Cajolery

25 One of two polar

opposites

28 Standard product, once 29 “___ It Time” (1977

hit for the Babys) 33 Unlikely Top 40 songs 34 More au courant 36 Find common ground 39 Ironic reaction

to dry humor?

40 Has a great night at the comedy club 41 Tribe encountered by Lewis and Clark 42 One of the jacks

in cribbage

43 Dearies

44 Much of the text of a Supreme Court decision 47 Big gaps

50 Hawaiian souvenir

51 Floppy disk creator 54 River of forgetfulness, in myth

55 Image on the Maine or South Carolina flag 58 Some “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” costumes

59 Trades

60 Pallid and unhealthy in appearance 61 Sizable ordinal

DOWN

1 Problematic firstborn

2 Lead-in to type

3 Abbr. on a city boundary sign 4 Pamplona plaudit

5 /

6 Out

7 Rib

8 Competition that hurts everyone

9 Got into a pickle? 10 Some WikiLeaks leaks 11 Words after “Ha, ha” 12 Drs. that see head cases 13 Home, in slang 14 Orlando, in the music world 21 State capital that was a boyhood home of Herbert Hoover 22 Lacking focus 23 “You sure about that?” 24 Weary

25 Kid’s proud retort 26 Moved furtively 27 Letters sung as mi, mi, re, re, do 30 Move furtively 31 Nervous ___

32 Lock

35 Olympus rival

37 Pram pushers,

perhaps

38 Ring data

43 Intimate

45 ___ board

46 Civil rights org.

since 1909 47 Thunderous sound 48 Goddess of marriage 49 Some bill collectors 51 Decrease?

52 Like lop ears

53 Go well (with) 55 Long-running drama

set in N.Y.C., informally 56 When la Bastille was stormed 57 Word with black or blood