NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Player in a baseball stadium
6 Kind of system in which 64 is 100 11 “Hold on ___!”
14 “Serial” podcast host Sarah
16 “Far out!”
18 ___ Panza, sidekick of Don Quixote 19 Not go out to dinner
20 ÷ 40
22 Jesus, with “the”
23 Went to bat (for)
25 Adjective on Tex-Mex menus 26 “Seriez” is a form of it
28 Things with microgrooves
29 Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for
Drama
38 Almost certainly
39 Backdrop to AMC’s “The Walking
Dead”
40 Remote area?
41 Letters on some bulletproof vests 42 Mass-produce, with “out”
45 Big name in mops
50 One of a kind
54 Beer pong receptacle
56 Seemingly expressing
58 Wife in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Tender Is
the Night”
59 Fugitive’s destination, maybe 60 Painter’s undercoat
61 Sly chuckle
62 Newspaper divisions
63 Group of near nobodies
DOWN
1 “Your point being …?”
2 Mounts with a little white on top? 3 French novelist/dramatist associated with the Theater of the Absurd 4 Dried chili pepper on Tex-Mex menus 5 Greeting in Guangzhou
6 Fall behind
7 Scorch
8 Home to Rodin’s “The Kiss,” with “the” 9 Slightly
10 When Taurus begins
11 Oenophile’s criterion
12 Copied
13 Word with space or rock
15 British writing award
17 Region near Mount Olympus 21 Bauhaus-influenced typeface 24 Hospital sections, for short
27 Nudges
28 Celebratory round
29 Tracy and Jenna’s boss on “30 Rock” 30 Odysseus’ rescuer
31 Marvel series depicting the Tet
Offensive, with “The”
32 Annual June sports event, informally 33 Cut off
34 Colorful birds
35 Bite
36 Letters that come before AA? 37 House call?
42 Not stay awake any longer 43 “Manners require time, as nothing is more vulgar than ___”: Ralph Waldo Emerson
44 ___ the Hittite, soldier in King David’s
army
46 Popped (out)
47 Main
48 C.D.C. concern
49 Game sheet
51 Burrowing animal
52 Pompeii’s Temple of ___
53 Made, as a putt
55 Fresh
57 Shortest Magic 8 Ball response