NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Musical pieces for one
instrument 6 Enthusiastic
10 Shoot out
14 Literary heroine who cries “Curiouser and curiouser!”
15 Apex predator of the
ocean
16 Bear whose bed is too soft, in a children’s story
17 Time to watch boxing
on TV
19 Vases
20 To the greatest extent 21 “Hmm, I’m intrigued …” 23 .
24 Like getting a $2 bill in
change
25 Gulped
28 Modern request to
attend
30 One rushing in to save
the day
33 Mess up
37 “___ your price!” 38 One of the housewives on “Desperate Housewives”
39 Tears out of the ground 41 Ingratiates
43 Noggin
44 ___ at hand
46 It’s on the plus side
47 It makes your pupils
constrict
50 Hawaiian kind of porch 51 Floral wreath
52 Stay in touch? 56 Venusians and
Martians, in brief 57 Motion accompanying the words “There, there”
60 Martial art with a belt
system
62 Carry
64 “Precisely!”
67 Greek counterpart of
Cupid
68 Citrus fruit that won’t win any beauty contests? 69 First-stringers 70 Snakes spawned by Medusa’s blood, in Greek myth 71 Requests
72 Carried
DOWN
1 Less risky
2 Tony who played for 15 seasons with the Minnesota Twins 3 Large hybrid cat 4 Brownish-yellow 5 Goes down, as the sun on the horizon
6 Kind of pond in a
Japanese garden 7 Small work unit 8 Sound in a long, empty
hallway
9 Alliance HQ’D in
Brussels
10 Bird in Liberty Mutual
ads
11 Annual New Orleans
celebration 12 Paradoxical response to a door knock 13 Pepsi Challenge, for
one
18 Witness to the first
rainbow in the Bible 22 Rooster’s mate 26 Glittery addition to a
Christmas tree
27 Info on an airport
monitor, for short 29 Emanations to be
picked up
30 Repeated question
from an owl?
31 Come out
32 When doubled, a popular number puzzle
33 Foamy drink invented
in Taiwan
34 Ones “standing by” in
an infomercial 35 Railroad station 36 Cuban line dance 40 Explosive stuff 42 Slangy pronoun
45 Be sick
48 Au courant
49 Walk in the woods 52 ___-Lay (corn chip
maker)
53 Enthusiastic
54 ___ Hunt, role for Tom Cruise in “Mission: Impossible”
55 “I’ve got this”
58 Water color
59 Harbor boats
61 Horse developed in the
desert
63 Curve in the road 65 Kind
66 “My country, ___ of
thee …”