The New York Times
ACROSS
1 Part of some Italian church names
5 Rights advocacy
org.
9 “The food of love,” per Shakespeare
14 Territory reached along the Oregon Trail
15 Pirate’s swill
16 Feeling the need
to pace, say
17 Actress who portrayed Scarlett O’Hara and Blanche DuBois
19 Spring zodiac
symbol
20 Cocktails with brandy and crème de menthe
21 Ape
22 Doomed to fail,
for short
23 Co-Nobelist of
1978
24 Awards that only one college athlete has ever won twice
29 Some stock in the exotic pet trade
31 Cow, often
32 Japan’s ___
Castle
33 K-O connector
34 Ones getting
the last word in 36 Spot for a
hymnbook
37 Country west of
Zambia: Abbr. 38 Katey who played
TV’s Peg Bundy 39 Something that a ram and a Ram have in common
40 Atkins, for one
44 Tackle box
assortment
45 The “O” of
18-Down
46 Said nasty
things about
48 “We appreciate the contribution”
53 Shouts of
accomplishment 54 Complete
reversals
55 Church chorus? 56 Really cool, in
dated slang
57 Black-and-white
danger
58 “Ol’ Man River” singer, traditionally
59 Jeremiad
60 Take a ___
DOWN
1 Expeditions, e.g. 2 Coming to blows,
say
3 Indigenous race in the “Avatar” movies
4 What Columbus thought he’d reached in 1492 5 Radiant
6 Old-fashioned
news source
7 Records
8 “Gross!”
9 Charger dodgers 10 Open on
Christmas, say 11 What a provocateur aims to do
12 “Money ___
object”
13 Concern for a
dermatologist
18 World Vision and
others, for short 21 Utensil for
peeling
23 Ratfink
24 Soars near the
shore, maybe
25 Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short, in a 1986 comedy 26 Away from 27 Source of down 28 Scattered, as
seed
29 Uninspiring
30 Prefix with
directional
34 Hot shot?
35 Challenged
39 Cheery refrains from the Seven Dwarfs
41 Big-game hunting targets in the classic short story “The Most Dangerous Game”
42 Most prying 43 Aerodynamic
resistance
46 Take a ___
47 Holy title in Tibet 48 Early Quechua
speaker
49 What “T” stands for in video game ratings
50 Peut-___ (French
“maybe”)
51 High-end camera
brand
52 Stressor for some H.S. sophomores
54 Dip stick?