NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Hangs onto something 9 Establishing
15 Bad record 16 “Hello-o-o-o!” 17 Jalapeño, after
smoking
18 Like Art Nouveau 19 Aesop’s “The ___ and
the Grasshopper” 20 Upper-crust sorts,
stereotypically 22 Utterly, in modern
slang
23 Elect
24 Starbucks competitor 26 Soccer superstar
Lionel
29 ___-chic
30 They’re loaded with
cash
33 Currently
36 “I’m in awe”
37 Fruity liqueur
38 “Ferris Bueller’s Day
Off” co-star
40 Ending with many fruit
names
41 Fried chicken option 43 Openly lament 45 Composition of
Indonésie 46
47 “Sweet” locale in T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”
49 Pro caregivers, for short
50 Led a parade, musically 52 Title character not requiring an actor 54 Start of many Southwest place names
57 Wayne of soccer fame 59 2016 prequel that earned more than a billion dollars at the box office
61 Lawrence of Arabia
portrayer
62 Classic book that begins “At the far end of town where the Grickle-grass grows …” 63 Show that won the Outstanding Drama Emmy for each of its first four seasons 64 Worshiper with an inverted pentagram, maybe
DOWN
1 Sight on an Alaskan cruise
2 German route
3 Small peninsula 4 Rafael Nadal’s home, in Olympics shorthand 5 Exhibition highlight 6 Adjust to, as on a thermostat
7 Some bottom-dwellers 8 Part of a blended family
9 Invitation qualification 10 Major vessel
11 Cousin of “Gosh darn it!”
12 “Forgive the question …” 13 C or D
14 Splits
21 Outlines
23 Agcy. headed by a deputy asst. secretary of labor
25 Like Bugles snacks 26 Colorful parrot
27 Piece played in a
conservatory
28 Cart fare
29 Pirated, in a way 31 Transform
32 Rebellion leader of
1786
34 “Haste makes waste,”
e.g.
35 One with hairy legs 39 Reasons to say “I’m
sorry”
42 Many honeymoon
locales
44 Whiz
48 “Send My Love” singer,
2016
49 19th-century author whose works are still read word for word 50 Email line
51 “Not one ___!”
53 Site of the 2022 World
Cup
54 Rick’s wife on “The
Walking Dead” 55 Santa ___ (some
winds)
56 Barely
communicate? 58 Thirst
60 Forever,
seemingly