NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “Dora the Explorer” catchphrase 16 Demanding

17 It’s not backed up 18 Cry for attention,

maybe

19 Mephitis

20 K’ung Fu-___

(Confucius) 21 Sign of a

sensation

22 Radio freq. unit 23 Japanese room

divider

25 What’s done up in

an updo 27 Unsavory 30 Capitol vehicle 33 First name in

fragrance 34 Angel’s

antithesis 35 Number below # 37 He hit his 600th

home run in 2007 38 How some bonds

are sold 40 Suffers

humiliation 42 Four-time Emmywinning drama 44 Specialized 45 Quinn of CBS’s

“Elementary” 47 Stanford rival,

informally

48 Cool ___

51 Home of the largest grain elevator in the world: Abbr. 53 Ancestor of a cell 55 U.S. financial

giant, for short 56 One way to lose

your balance? 59 “Things get ugly” 60 Classic Dr. Seuss

title

DOWN

1 Levels

2 Like EE vis-à-vis E 3 Digs in the snow? 4 “I’m exhausted!” 5 Trio of mummies 6 Bad record 7 Philosopher who said “What does not kill me makes me stronger”

8 Part of YOLO 9 Blows away

10 Big name in jam 11 Not just down 12 One way to stand 13 Spark provider 14 E-4 and E-5, but

not E-3

15 Good name for someone tracing family history? 22 Actor who said “It takes a smart guy to play dumb” 24 ___ J, singer with the 2014 hit “Bang Bang” 25 Straw mat

26 It’s a wrap

28 Drink flavorer 29 ___ big

30 Dora the Explorer,

e.g.: Abbr. 31 Fred Astaire, at

times 32 Taciturnity 34 Sound of a sock 36 Starter at un

restaurant 39 Drink that competes with Monster

41 Big name in

shipping

43 2010s dance

craze

46 Abbr. on a food

wrapper 48 “Ville-d’Avray”

painter

49 On the wrong side

(of)

50 ___ Tatin (upsidedown pastry) 51 Singer Perry 52 Pine

54 “That’s

ridiculous!” 55 Title for a fox 57 10/

58 Member of a

crossword aviary?