Montreal Gazette

NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

- EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ

ACROSS

1 Concerning vision

7 Info for a car service pickup, in brief

10 Drain

13 Estado south of Arizona

14 Glamping site, maybe

16 Madagascar, par exemple

17 It’s needed for a push-up, informally

18 So

19 JFK alternativ­e

20 Proudly dresses like Bill Nye or Pee-wee Herman?

23 Like some doors

24 Pivot point

25 Silo filler, for short

27 Bellyache

28 Roughage source

29 What you feel “when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie”

30 Layer

31 Mideast diplomat’s request, when itching to be challenged?

33 Genesis craft

34 Inc., abroad

35 Premier internet connection?

41 Many an I.R.S. worker

44 Half of a 1960s folk-rock group

45 ___ avis

46 Bogus

47 Fast pace

48 European Union member, to natives

49 Ali who retired undefeated

50 Liberate Louis XIV’S palace?

53 Pan Am rival

54 Fries, e.g.

55 Foundation for a home on a bayou

56 Have

57 Boggle the mind

58 Locale for Ernst and Young

59 Vote heard on the floor … and at the end of 20-, 31-, 35- and 50-Across?

60 Short albums, for short

61 Some “Toy Story”-themed toys, informally

DOWN

1 Source of material for a feather duster

2 Astronomic­al rings

3 Start-up worth a billion dollars, in a modern coinage

4 What brakes shouldn’t do

5 “Give it ___”

6 Mesmerized

7 It may involve dilation

8 Wind power generator

9 Odysseus’ faithful dog

10 Element of some chips

11 Something with an “x” factor?

12 What a shooter may shoot

15 Pull

21 Pernicious­ness

22 Retiring

26 Soong ___-ling, Madame Chiang Kaishek

28 Anti-apartheid activist Steve

29 Wine center near Turin

31 Large: Fr.

32 Lead-in for Romeo

33 Wide open

35 Premium network

36 How you might meet someone

37 Land on the Persian Gulf

38 Desiccated

39 Overpopula­ted, mazy districts

40 Angers

41 “Simmer down!”

42 Something for an artist to have on hand

43 Piles up

46 Like tears

48 Online party request

49 Engine capacity unit

51 Powerful Scrabble tile

52 Second person?: Abbr.

53 Word with garden or party

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PUZZLE BY: BARBARA LIN NO. 0123

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