THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Elderly person on a fixed income

16 Propagandists’ detention site

17 Deterioration of standards by competitive forces

18 1957 Patrick White novel adapted into a 1986 opera 19 Comprehends 20 Didn’t clash ( with)

21 What a chicken feels 24 G. P. grp. 27 Diversified investment strategy 32 Corp. whose name is also its stock symbol 33 L. Frank Baum princess 34 Title heroine of a Wagner opera 35 Ford from the past 37 It’s easy to swallow 38 “Beats me” 39 Go outside the calling area, say 41 Dawg 42 Charging for every little thing 45 With 11- Down, become a part of 46 With 53- Down, many Marcel Duchamp works 47 Ray of old pictures 48 It’s a mouthful 51 Silents actress Negri 52 Political machine practice 59 Eugenia Washington ( co- founder of the Daughters of the American Revolution), to George Washington 60 Tumblers

DOWN 1 Bruin legend 2 Heartlessly abandons 3 Break down 4 Hymn opener 5 Courage 6 Friendly start?

7 Word that is its own synonym when spelled backward

8 Biblical ending

9 Baseball Hall- ofFamer Phil

10 PepsiCo brand 11 See 45- Across 12 Fall mos. 13 D. C. player 14 Like some broody teens 15 Dash letters 20 On hold … or what the seven rows of black squares in this puzzle’s grid spell in Morse code 21 Pasta ___ ( Italian dish, informally)

22 Smooth- leaved ___

23 Much like

24 Some backwoods folks

25 Alvin Ailey’s field 26 “Just about done” 28 Metric weight 29 One coming out of its shell? 30 “Me too” 31 Best 36 Contents of a well 39 It’s stranded, for short 40 Head- scratching 43 Televised fights? 44 Native New Zealanders 48 Pack ( in) 49 Lanford Wilson’s “The ___ Baltimore”

50 Messenger de Dieu

51 ___ colada 52 “War and Peace” has a lot of them: Abbr.

53 See 46- Across 54 Silkscreen target

55 Oomph

56 Lang. class

57 Blood test letters 58 Some appliances, for short