The New York Times PUZZLE 1
ACROSS
1 Smartphone
downloads
5 Read electronically, as a U.P.C.
9 City-related
14 Daytime TV
drama, informally
15 “Actually, you’re
way off …”
16 Gumption
17 One of the Starks on “Game of Thrones”
18 “The rules apply to everyone,” redundantly
20 Considers to be
appropriate
22 “May that happen,” in Shakespeare
23 “Stick to the agreement,” redundantly
25 Salmon topping
for a bagel
26 Minimally
30 Descended swiftly, like a hawk
35 Tarnish
36 “There can be no changing things now,” redundantly
40 Fine and dandy
41 It opens all doors
42 British brew with a red triangle logo
46 Utter
47 “We’ll just have to adapt,” redundantly 53 Novelist Charlotte, Emily or Anne
56 Snarled-up mess
of debris
57 “We all deserve to have our intimate relationships honored,” redundantly
59 Swanky bash
60 Shaquille of the
N.B.A.
61 Beehive State
collegians
62 Computer
operator
63 Sykes of comedy
64 Fellow
65 Annoying sort
DOWN
1 Carne ___ (taco
choice)
2 Studied carefully,
with “over”
3 Money order
recipient
4 Tony-winning musical with the song “Knights of the Round Table”
5 Added at the end, like the “-ness” in “kindness”
6 Fragrant spiced
teas
7 “West Side Story” role for Rita Moreno and Ariana DeBose
8 Neither’s partner
9 Open, as an
envelope
10 Amend one’s tax
return 11 Obnoxious kid
12 Hertz competitor
13 Emperor who purportedly fiddled while Rome burned
19 “Yeah, right …”
21 Spills messily
24 Viggo Mortensen and Hans Christian Andersen, by nationality
27 Run ___ (go
berserk)
28 Rational
29 Card that beats a
deuce
30 Q-tip, e.g. 31 “Hold your
horses!”
32 Sturdy trees
33 Tops of many cathedrals and temples
34 Like peas ___ pod
37 “They just want to see how we’ll react”
38 Plane
assignments
39 Evaporating
43 O’Connor with the 1990 hit “Nothing Compares 2 U”
44 Fifth-century leader of the Huns
45 Untruths
48 Jotted down
49 Sanctuary
50 Poke fun at
51 St. Croix and St. Thomas, for two
52 Set into motion
53 Erupt
54 Novelist Jaffe
55 Pizzeria fixture
58 Galoot