NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Key for Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture”
6 A house may be built on it
10 Burlesque accessories
14 Web-footed mammals
15 A goose egg
16 Gimlet garnish
17 —
18 Locale suggested by this puzzle’s theme 20 Malcolm Gladwell best seller that
explores the 10,000-hour rule
22 Ice cream container
23 Virginia Woolf’s “___ Dalloway”
24 Statue of ___, figure atop the U.S. Capitol 26 ___ culpa
29 Autobahn hazard
30 Elflike
31 Big hopper
32 Things with perks?
36 —
37 “I need to speak with you,” briefly 38 Capote sobriquet
39 Cartomancy tool
40 Brand of spread for sandwiches and
toast
41 Bouncer’s equipment
43 —
44 Ingredient in a Cuban sandwich 45 Spanish 23-Across: Abbr.
46 Holy Trinity part
47 Ones coming for a ride?
49 Select
52 Wood rich in tannins
53 “Yankee Doodle” epithet that’s also the
name of a food
55 Nickname for 18-Across, and a hint to how four answers in this puzzle are to be entered
59 Instrument played using circular
breathing
60 Nashville music mecca, informally 61 “Old Macdonald” sound
62 —
63 Where Achilles took a dip?
64 Little ones
65 They can be treated with warm
compresses
DOWN
1 English town known for its salt
2 ___ de sel
3 Goes the distance
4 ___ Gawande, author of the 2014 best
seller “Being Mortal”
5 Embodied
6 Catch
7 Take five
8 S.I. V.I.P.S
9 Balls of yarn, fake mice, etc.
10 Gossip
11 Big Alaska export
12 “You think that’s true about me?” 13 “Spongebob Squarepants” setting 19 ___ Rebellion, 1808 uprising in New
South Wales
21 Language that gave us “spunk” and
“slogan”
25 Piece of information
26 Performers of the ceremonial haka
dance
27 Noted example of corporate misconduct
28 Stone with curved bands
29 Violinist Zimbalist
31 Dweller in a eucalyptus forest 32 Capitulates
33 Have a loan from
34 Strand at the airport, maybe 35 Letter-shaped part of a sink 39 Whirled powers?
41 What it takes two to tie
42 Time it takes light to travel .3 mm:
Abbr.
47 Novelist Santha Rama ___
48 Grades
49 Hot alcoholic drink
50 1973 #1 Rolling Stones love ballad 51 Fishing spots
52 Traditional gemstone for a seventh
wedding anniversary
54 Gas
55 Galas
56 Make a decision
57 Sardonic
58 Italian god