N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Places where surgeries are performed, for short
4 Not in any way, in dialect
9 Composition of many reefs
14 Sneaky
laugh
15 Practice piano piece 16 “The Phantom of the ___”
17 Gets past, as
an obstacle 19 Say
20 Spiral
shapes
21 Private eye,
quaintly
23 Tattoos,
informally 24 In that case 25 Where pirates roam
27 Vogue
competitor 28 Period in human history after bronze was supplanted in toolmaking 30 ___
Lilly &
Co.
31 Website for
techies
32 Zaps,
in a way
35 Omitted
37 Opposite of
35-Across? 39 Worrisome directive from a boss 40 Divisions of
a subdivision 41 ___ Bird,
many-time W.N.B.A. AllStar
42 Child’s play 44 It rhymes with fire, appropriately
45 Opposite of
25-Across? 48 Frisbee,
e.g. 49 Flexible blackjack card
50 Male cat
51 Hyundai
compact
54 2014 Ava DuVernay drama
56 Opposite of
17-Across? 58 Place to go for the highlights? 59 Wham or
bam
60 Pig follower in the Chinese zodiac
61 Beginning
62 Gown
63 Moody genre of music or fashion
DOWN
1 “Pick me! Pick me!”
2 Wake-up calls played on bugles
3 Twinkies have a long one
4 Classic
wafer brand 5 Nebraska
native
6 Carries a tune, in a way
7 Poem of
praise
8 Hilton
competitor 9 Visual jokes in openings of “The Simpsons” (a tradition since the first episode) 10 Make a
choice
11 Knot
again
12 Venue with tiered seating
13 Birds that do things just for the fun of it?
18 What good
soufflés do 22 “Liberté, ___, fraternité” (Haiti’s motto)
25 Spicy
26 Informal gettogether
27 Sinuous
swimmer
28 Raging
blaze
29 One tweeting about football?
31 Warrior
33 Place to sell homemade crafts online 34 Enchilada topping, maybe 36 Blue-green
shade
37 The New Yorker cartoonist Chast
38 Jill Biden ___
Jacobs
40 ___ ÉtatsUnis
43 Hillary who climbed Mount Everest with Tenzing Norgay
44 Radar
sound
45 Dogie
catcher
46 Atlantic or
Pacific
47 Wishing
sites
48 Induces to pull a prank, maybe
51 Actress
Falco
52 Not so much 53 Regarding 55 Leader of the Three Stooges
57 Oslo’s country: Abbr.