Montreal Gazette

NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

- edited by will shortz

ACROSS

1 Blogs, social media and other

nontraditi­onal outlets

12 Enlightene­d responses

15 Option when changing jobs

16 ___ Irvin, early cartoonist/designer for

The New Yorker

17 Dirt spreader

18 Roam (about)

19 Winter Olympics sights

20 Italian sculptor ___ Lorenzo Bernini 21 Section of a Crayola box

22 ___ talk

23 Campaign supporters

24 ___ Park

25 Words of explanatio­n

27 Pennsylvan­ia city where the Delaware

and Lehigh Rivers meet

28 Exhibiting a modern form of

obsession

31 Quick way to end a sentence? 32 “Where does it all end?” argument 33 Socket for setting a gem

34 Food preservers

35 “Any ___?”

36 Dolphinfis­h, informally

38 Flavor additive, in brief

41 It goes clockwise or counterclo­ckwise depending on the hemisphere

42 Legend says it arose on Palatine Hill 43 Search for prey

45 ___-con

46 Offshore waves?

48 Grade of wine

49 Projecting beams on a bridge 50 Cornerston­e abbr.

51 Reading and writing, for most jobs DOWN

1 Guinness Book adjective

2 “Go, me!”

3 Of renown

4 Stepped

5 Start of a start of a menu?

6 The Liberty Tree, for one

7 Ad agency specialist

8 Picker-upper

9 Fuel for planes

10 Follower of four or six, but not five 11 Mess up

12 Containing silver

13 Without deliberati­on

14 Breakup tune

21 Forwards

23 Little squealer

24 Hollande’s successor as president of

France

25 Factor in Billboard rankings 26 Buster of myths

27 Latin list ender

28 Extricated from a jam

29 Reason

30 Concept of beauty

31 Slow and steady types

32 Prestigiou­s academic journal 36 When cock-a-doodle-doos are done 37 Italian known for pulling strings? 38 Paradigm

39 Ice cream choice

40 Part of a makeup kit

42 Org. fighting copyright infringeme­nt 43 Like very early education, for short 44 ___ Shankar, influence on George

Harrison

46 Chemical contaminan­t, for short 47 High ways?

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PUZZLE BY: JOHN GUZZETTA no. 0224

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