Montreal Gazette

NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

- EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ

ACROSS

1 Beach makeup

5 Japanese P.M. Shinzo ___

8 Heads of families

13 Mocker of Hamlet’s “unmanly grief”

15 Throw in the direction of

16 On the table

18 Controvers­ial food preservati­ve, for short

19 That’s a moray!

20 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance

Kid

21 Like the baseball of the New Orleans Baby Cakes

22 D as in dates?

24 “I give up”

29 Cozy places?

32 Emmy- and Oscar-winning Melissa 33 Denoting a 3” nail, so-called from its original cost

34 “Doggone it!”

37 Like family-friendly films 38 Women’s rights activist Mott

40 Nail

41 “You’re really testing my patience right now …”

42 Lead singer of Coldplay, once married to Gwyneth Paltrow

46 Rhimes who created “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Scandal”

47 Nail

50 Refrain syllables

53 Item under a fairy tale princess’ mattress

56 Impersonal “you”

57 Driving test challenge … or a hint to this puzzle’s circled letters

60 Web issues

61 Chin stroker’s comment 62 Couples

63 Music purchases of the 1990s and early 2000s

64 First in line

DOWN

1 Kind of gear for a diver

2 Top dog

3 Pact inveighed against by Trump 4 Couple

5 Congressio­nal staffer

6 Uses as a foundation

7 Start of something?

8 Secant’s reciprocal

9 Attack

10 Trident-shaped letters

11 Early tribe met by Lewis and Clark 12 Some heirs

14 Eazy-E collaborat­or, informally 15 Dutch export

17 Paintball gear, familiarly 23 “Heavens!”

24 Plenty angry

25 Chinese secret society

26 Send

27 Take effect

28 Slugger Sammy

29 Head of a classroom, in slang 30 Put in

31 Gibbon, e.g.

33 ___ II (Gillette razor)

34 It starts when an overture’s over 35 Carolina ___ (state bird)

36 Power (up)

39 Not yet used

41 Mother of Perseus

43 Singapore, e.g.

44 Sources of oil

45 Gangsters’ gals

47 Statistica­l distractio­ns

48 Take without asking

49 Sire

50 Hit 100, say

51 Blurred

52 Gershwin’s “Summertime,” e.g. 54 Grub

55 Branch

58 Business letters?

59 He’s a doll

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