NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Jesus, Mary or Joseph
9 Some Eastern dignitaries
15 Occasion for grilling
16 Something worn for protection
17 Own
18 “Philosophy in the Bedroom” writer,
1795
19 “There’s the ___”
20 Way to get around in Chicago 22 Schedule abbr.
23 On deck, say
25 Scientist who was friends with Mark
Twain
26 Consider
27 Half of Italy
29 Floats are often made with them
31 ___ Games, second-largest multisport
event after the Olympics 32 Contemptuous, in a way
33 Welcome offering
35 Portraitist’s request
36 [Ho-o-o boy, here we go again …] 41 Heat-resistant glass
45 Midwest city in the title of a 1942 Glenn
Miller #1 hit
46 Margaret ___, artist known for painting
subjects with big eyes
47 Those in favor
48 Spoils
50 Word with search or witness 51 Open-house org.
52 Acts like a quidnunc
54 Kind of rock
55 Support above a doorway 57 10-year-old boy of comics with glasses
and blond hair
59 Unprincipled
60 Words said with a wave
61 Writer who served as a senator in Chile 62 Like wild accusations
DOWN
1 Rhyming descriptor for Obama
2 Turns on
3 River through Victoria Falls
4 Krieger of the U.S. women’s soccer
team
5 French name meaning “born again” 6 Apotheosize
7 Shoots the breeze
8 Liberal arts college in Boston
9 Sends off
10 Last word of the New Testament
11 Dip for a French dip
12 Youth support group
13 Comedian Mitch who said “I haven’t slept for 10 days, because that would be too long”
14 Decreases, in a way?
21 After-shave additive
24 Plants whose name derives from the
Greek for “dry”
26 Members of a pantheon
28 Two bells, nautically
30 Allegro
34 Actress Rossellini of “Blue Velvet” 36 When it’s light
37 ___ Smeal, three-term president of
NOW
38 Polo alternative
39 “Bravo!”
40 Flow down a mountain
42 Fine example?
43 Charms
44 Copies, in a way
45 Competitor of Peterson’s and Princeton
Review
49 Y Y Y Y, on a form
52 Renaissance Faire quaff
53 Cross
56 1989 one-man show
58 Devils’ advocate?: Abbr.