NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “Isn’t it strange?” 9 1, 2, 3, 4 … 11, 12,

14, etc.

15 Natural ingredient

in mouthwash 16 Record at the

register

17 Times table? 18 Juice 19 Bootlegger’s foe 20 Award winners 22 Modern health

risk, informally 24 Composer whose name is one letter off from an international peace grp.

25 How model airplane parts are sold

27 Subject of Shakespeare’s line “Come, thou mortal wretch” 28 Closers of some

boxes

32 ___/ hr. ( power

meas.) 33 Condescending

term of address 35 Couscous tidbit 37 Dark

39 Shipment to a mill 40 Ally of Britain during the Seven Years’ War 41 Human Genome

Project org. 42 1980s cable competitor of

CMT

43 Nonvital surgery

target

44 Book before Deut. 46 Finale of a radio

countdown 48 Having a little of this, a little of that

51 Bird that sometimes sings in a duet

52 Cal Ripken Jr. or

Pee Wee Reese 55 Latin word that’s 12- Down backward

57 Joint

58 Einstein referred to his endorsement of it as “one great mistake” 60 Neutral at worst 61 Longtime locale of

Mideast conflict 62 “Nevertheless …” 63 90s kid?

DOWN

1 In ___ of 2 Uncomplicated 3 Bill and Hillary Clinton have each won one

4 Judith who was the second American woman in space

5 Part of a box set,

maybe

6 Part of a foot 7 Alpha ___ Minoris

( the North Star) 8 With 45-Down, Disney song written by Elton John and Tim

Rice

9 Maverick 10 Machine in a particle physics lab, in brief

11 Like some ranking systems 12 Despotic boss 13 Challenges for

Roombas

14 ___- fi

21 Extra shot at the

slots

23 Lead agent on

“NCIS” 25 28-pound debut

of 1981

26 Topic in artificial

intelligence 29 What’s more 30 Annual mass event in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert 31 Blockage

unblocker 34 Humdingers

36 In any possible

way, in dialect 38 Titular android of early anime cartoons

45 See 8-Down 47 Offer

in advance 49 What unexpected

problems may do 50 Foes of the

Romans

52 “So ___?”

53 Stock market

recommendation 54 Expert on feet 56 Last words?

57 3x platinum Kendrick Lamar song with the lyric “I was born like this”

59 Big Sky

Conference sch.