NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Shoestrings 6 Cook in oil 9 Brewing giant originally based in Milwaukee 14 Roofing alternative to shingles 15 Whopper (but not the Burger King kind) 16 Hawaiian greeting 17 Extremely inexpensive 19 Things sometimes hidden behind paintings 20 Extinguish, as a fire 21 Cost of a bank transaction that’s not with one’s own bank 22 Confucian philosophy 24 Bottom-up, as a political movement 26 Runs away to marry 29 Like some winter highways 30 Perfect test grade 31 New Testament trio
33 Pop a fly? 37 “Now things are getting interesting” … or a hint to the first words of 17-, 24-, 45- and 57-Across 40 Gilbert of “Roseanne” and “The Conners” 41 Knots 42 Ship of 1492 43 High degree 44 Bub 45 Amateurish 51 GPS lines: Abbr. 52 Going from gig to gig 53 Texas city seen in many westerns 56 Hatred 57 Bars that kids go to?
60 Get a feeling 61 Iraq War danger, in brief
62 One of the Hawaiian Islands 63 Parts of a forest 64 “Here’s something interesting,” in brief
65 Got some Z’s
DOWN
1 Timothy Leary’s drug 2 “The Greatest” in the ring 3 One who doesn’t travel to work alone 4 “___, Brute!” 5 Religious offshoot 6 ___-de-lis 7 Cowboy’s rope 8 Informal affirmative 9 Danish or cream puff 10 Avis competitor 11 Highly successful, in theater-speak 12 One of 500 in a ream 13 Zaps with a police gun 18 Harleys, in slang 21 PC character set
22 Milk dispensers 23 Leader of the pack 25 Sounds of resignation 27 Stage after larva 28 Bilingualism subj. 31 Sacred peak in Greek myth: Abbr. 32 Had one’s fill 33 Equipment often transported on a car’s roof 34 Was a maverick 35 Chipped in at a poker game 36 Old Russian royals 38 None of the above 39 Computer’s “brain,” for short 43 Clouds of smoke 44 What the Titanic had a disastrous encounter with
45 Give a lift 46 Beneath 47 “Goosebumps” writer R. L. ___ 48 One of four purchased for a Monopoly property 49 Sticky
50 We, on a candy heart 54 Fraternal group 55 “You’re on!” 57 Alternative to Skippy or
Peter Pan 58 Big mouth 59 Cambridge sch. for budding engineers