NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1 Former British colony whose national flag includes the Union Jack
5 It might slowly grow on
you
10 Be hot and bothered
14 Freshly
15 Like Venus vis-à-vis
Serena Williams
16 Part of YOLO 17 Putdown to a klutz, in
dated slang
20 They're open to change 21 From which we get
“Hakuna matata” 22 Politician's platform 23 Drags
24 The drinks are on me!
27 Maximally neat 29 Opera daughter of
Amonasro
30 Green sort
32 Shot
33 Selfish demand
34 Part of a cup
37 Sea that's fed by the
Jordan River
38 Big name in sandals 39 One in a state of
disbelief
42 Bigwig in the
admissions dept.? 44 Like some
enemies 45 Devil-may-care 46 Member of high
society?
49 He wrote “All good things are wild and free”
52 “Let me be frank …” 54 Writer who founded
Objectivism
55 Striped cat
56 Author of the six-book
poem “Fasti”
57 They move around in
orbits
58 Knocks dead
59 Like casting Michael Keaton in “Birdman” as an actor who used to play a superhero
DOWN
1 Unfading
2 Flying
3 What makes you question everything you know?
4 Literally, “sulfur island” 5 See 25-Down
6 Eugene O'neill's “Desire Under the ___” 7 Big scene
8 Races, in a way
9 Acted sketchy? 10 Shelter from attack 11 As opposed to
12 Runs up and down? 13 Like policies prohibited by Title IX 18 Leave stunned, in a
way
19 Go for a bite, say
24 Be up
25 With 5-Down, Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in atomic theory 26 Ill-suited
27 Dwarf planet between
Mars and Jupiter 28 Dawn
31 Jazz great Evans 33 Central part of town:
Abbr.
34 It's not your fault
35 “Oh, just stop!” 36 Something to shoot for 37 Kicking and screaming,
often
38 Russian ___ (iconic restaurant near New York's Central Park) 39 Have a target 40 Involving a give-and
take
41 Scorcher
43 Projecting front 47 Many fire dept.
members, by training 48 Mideast capital
49 Big purveyor of frozen
desserts
50 Cries for attention
51 Certification letters 53 L.A. and N.Y.C. are each represented in it twice