#CROSSWORD
NEW YORK TIMES
ACROSS
1 Regions
6 Made over from square one
11 Mushroom top
14 Donkey used as a pack animal
15 Wear away, as soil
16 Aioli ingredient … or three of the letters in “aioli”
17 *Indoor bouldering locale
19 “Much ___ About Nothing”
20 Produce, as by a gland
21 Found a place for on the schedule 23 Slice of history
24 Purple avenue in Monopoly
25 “Too bad, so sad!” 28 French for “milk”
30 “___ well that ends well”
32 Kids may make one out of pillows or snow
33 ___ and outs
34 Say no, when given a choice
36 Do something
37 *Male equivalent of a she-shed
39 What to call a knight
40 Kind of sleeve that extends to the collar
42 Miley Cyrus’s “Party in the ___”
43 Grp. that opposes foie gras and wearing fur
44 Den
45 Heart of the matter
46 Thingy
47 Ambitiously pursue, as an opportunity
49 Janis ___, “Mean Girls” sidekick
51 Give support to
53 Cosmetic reapplication
57 Gorilla, e.g.
58 “Stick with it!” … or a hint to the answers to the starred clues
60 La Brea ___ Pits (Los Angeles attraction)
61 Rhode Island, the ___ State
62 This Greek letter: Ω
63 Crafty
64 Proudly brainy sorts
65 Passover meal
DOWN
1 Kindergarten basics
2 “I before E except after C,” e.g.
3 Children’s book author ___ Carle
4 Place where elbows bump on a plane
5 Not drunk
6 Philosopher Descartes
7 Unit of work
8 Watched a neighbor’s pup, say
9 Pastoral poem
10 Cassette submitted to a record label
11 *Room by the foyer, often
12 Errand runner
13 Lumber (along)
18 Like pizzas and piazzas
22 ___-A-whirl (carnival ride)
24 Cookie, to the Brits
25 Off in the distance
26 Good person to ask to show you around town
27 *Place to buy a painting
29 ___ Arbor, Mich.
31 Multiroom hotel offering
34 A big one might be standing in a concert hall
35 Coal carrier
37 Running portion of an Ironman race 38 Stubborn animal
41 Claims rated “four Pinocchios,” say
43 “I must be dreaming!”
45 Gather, as support
48 What a dove symbolizes
50 Cars
51 Faces a pitcher
52 Birthstone for most Libras
53 Breath mint containers
54 Follow, as advice
55 Compulsive feeling
56 Not-quite-round fruit
59 Aimlessly wander (about)