NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Unrepaired
5 Terse turndown to an invitation 11 “No ___”
14 Romance novelist’s award
15 One taking a bow
16 One of the pioneers of the
internet
17 Internet marketing metric 19 Smallest possible band 20 Commands
21 Monkey
23 Shows friendliness, in a way 24 Lead-in to gender
25 One of the film-directing
Wachowskis
27 Word whispered by the quiet old
lady in “Goodnight Moon”
28 Like most proverbs, in brief 29 An order might be one
34 Bar requirement
35 Playwright who wrote “We are all
born mad. Some remain so” 36 Shade at the beach
37 Caper
38 ___ classic
39 Sharp
40 1962 Stanley Kubrick film
46 Like some winter windshields 48 This might be cast in a police
drama
49 It self-replicates
50 Not stay on the same page, say 52 With 55-Across, film comedy bomb
of 1994
53 Brokerage giant founded in 1991 54 Diner manager in “Garfield” 55 See 52-Across
56 Not just rank
57 It appears in stacks
DOWN
1 About 5% of the world’s population 2 Finer cut, usually
3 Anxious
4 Something the force is responsible for? 5 Landscapers may find them hard to handle
6 Asylums
7 Big manufacturer of bar code scanners 8 “You really have a warped mind!” 9 Receive surprising news 10 Beehive State city 11 Prepared to move to the sticks? 12 Bit of unpleasantness
13 ___ Worms (1980s toys)
18 “In a way”
22 Protest
24 Part of a place setting
26 “___ news?”
27 Only musician to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 as both a vocalist and an instrumentalist
29 Shown in more than one place
30 Make match
31 “That’s my ___”
32 Arrives at in a vehicle
33 Artichoke heart?
34 Comfort Inn competitor
35 ___ fly
40 Scrim material
41 Pablo Neruda’s “___ to Wine”
42 Late civil rights leader John
43 Prelim
44 “Ich liebe dich” : German :: “___” :
Spanish
45 Time spent close to home
47 No goldbrick
48 Stay close to shore, say
49 Dance move
51 ___ Sherman cigars