NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Too fast to be careful 9 Stockpile
14 Gaze at, as someone’s
eyes
15 Tool used while on foot 16 Be heedful
17 “___ LANDS!” (headline
of 1927)
18 Shoe brand that’s also
a man’s name
19 Exact match 20 Euphemism for Satan,
with “the”
21 Unctuous utterances 23 Prey for a heron 25 Short
26 TV series inspired by
Sherlock Holmes 29 Someone glimpsed in a
concert film, maybe 31 Rum cocktail
34 Need settling 35 So-called “Grandmother of Europe,” born 5/24/1819
39 Boot
40 Reached out with one’s
hands?
41 Inventor of a
17th-century calculator 43 One use for a tablet 48 La saison de juillet 49 Backpack and its
contents, e.g.
52 What a football penalty
may be seen in 53 Time being
55 Odds and evens, say 58 Do so hope 59 Pioneering rocket scientist Wernher von ___
60 Fictional land named in some real-life international law cases 62 Worshiper of the war
god Huitzilopochtli 63 Opening of an account 64 Like the sound of an
oboe
65 Some descendants of
62-Acrosses
DOWN
1 Patron of sailors 2 Horse-drawn fourwheeled carriage 3 Passions
4 Shade of green
5 By ___ of
6 Over
7 Bring discredit upon 8 Star of Broadway’s “The Lady and Her Music,” 1981
9 Didn’t stray from 10 Cartoon character often shown with his tongue out
11 Mass movement 12 Cold War opponent, informally
13 Not moved at all 14 URL element 22 Rickrolling or the
Dancing Baby, e.g. 24 London or Manchester 27 Priciest 1952 Topps
baseball card 28 Shabby club 30 National Garden Mo. 32 Passes, informally 33 Part of un opéra 35 Louis ___ (French king) 36 Grp. that no one under
30 can join
37 One way to reduce a
sentence
38 Portion of Alexander
Pope’s work 39 Amenity at many a
wedding reception 42 F.B.I., e.g.
44 Source for fine
sweaters
45 Jamie ___, co-star in the “Fifty Shades of Grey” movies 46 Modern cause of
flooding
47 Kind of jelly 50 Presidential middle
name
51 Get more mileage
from
54 Signaled to start 56 Colorful breakfast
bowlful
57 Who often says “I
found this on the web” 61 Sam Spade, e.g.,
informally