Crossword Edited by Will Shortz
ACROSS
1 Tibetan monk
5 On the ___
(fleeing)
8 Something caught
in a theater
13 Bajillions
14 Emotion that may
be pent up
15 Saoirse of “Lady
Bird”
16 Famous fighting
words
19 High-maintenance
star
20 Spiritual leader who rides in a customized car
21 Musician Bartók
or Fleck
22 Took to court
23 Item made of ingredients grown without pesticides 29 Good number to
shoot for
30 As well
31 “Tightrope” singer
Janelle
32 They’s pronoun
partner
34 Uberfan, in
modern lingo
37 Machines that remove cotton seeds
38 “Honestly, though
…”
40 Web crawler, of a
sort
42 Up to, informally 43 Color-matching puzzle game with billions of downloads
47 Acronym for a champion among champions
48 100 cents
49 “Mind ... blown!” 53 “My Sister’s Keeper” author Picoult
54 Travel crosscountry … or a description of what 16-, 23- and 43-Across do?
58 Sch. founded by
Ben Franklin
59 Old “You’ve got
mail” sloganeer 60 Radio dial
61 Good thing to
have on the books 62 Pick up
63 “Neither rain nor
snow …” org.
DOWN
1 Hammurabi’s area
of expertise
2 Chicken ___ king 3 Misunderstood song lyric like “’Scuse me while I kiss this guy”
4 Hun from whom Dracula claims to be descended, in Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”
5 Pop star Dua ___ 6 Horror director
Aster
7 Rendezvous
(with)
8 Battle cry in
“Braveheart”
9 Roller coaster
feature
10 What is offered
when you call 411 11 Overly theatrical,
as a B-movie
12 Part of pants that
may be well worn 17 ___-garde
18 “Clueless”
protagonist
21 Hindu god of
creation
22 Ewan McGregor or Craig Ferguson, by birth
23 That’s some
nerve!
24 Siri’s platform 25 Jackapoo or schnoodle
26 Christians who don’t believe in the Trinity
27 “Are we done here?”
28 Scientist on one side of the “War of the Currents”
33 Fuming
35 Share a border with
36 Votes against 39 Lawrence Taylor, for all his N.F.L. career, in brief
41 Teen drama that inspired “Laguna Beach”
44 Pulls a fast one on
45 Motley
46 Puzzle craze of 2006
49 The rain in Spain?
50 Brooms : Roombas :: ___ : Scoobas 51 “Pocket rockets,” in poker
52 The “Z” of ZIP code
53 Cola brand with a lightning bolt in its logo
55 Single digit? 56 Soak (up)
57 Onetime network for Conan O’Brien