THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Potential

misfit 10 Darken 15 Iranian

export 16 Actress Hubbard of “Akeelah and the Bee” 17 Abbot’s

attribute 18 Goliath’s master of old TV 19 Show

iness 20 Private

chat 22 Ref’s call 23 Secret

rival 24 Santa Maria’s chain 25 Number retired for Steve Largent and Jerry Rice 28 One hanging in una iglesia 30 Truncated parlor piece? 31 Some costume cutouts 33 Figure in

red 35 Sitcom mom of Cheyenne and Kyra 36 There’s nothing in it 38 “I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it” speaker 40 Kewpie doll features 44 What a brat might throw 45 Display

some guns 47 Fen fre

quenters 49 Painting the town red 51 Crack at a

contract 53 It can be

felt on felt 54 Things placed during a political campaign 56 Two-time

Italian prime minister Giuliano 58 Filler of some cavities 59 Short, curly hairdo 61 Eye: Prefix 62 Heyday 63 Four-bag

ger 64 Ready to beposted, say DOWN 1 Home to Tropicana Field, familiarly 2 Rush job 3 Detrol prescriber’s field 4 Relative of

cerulean 5 Body shop

concern 6 Big stretch 7 Passion por

trayal 8 Spirit 9 Tale of der

ring-do 10 Really bril

liant 11 Lyre holder

of myth 12 Shifts 13 Lemons are often squeezed into them 14 Shakespearean might 21 ___ de

Lourdes 23 Abbr. often preceding 29-Down 26 Many a

Berliner 27 Competition TVseries with versions in over 30

countries 29 Abbr. often following 23-Down 32 Fashionable, some say 34 Radon’s

lack 37 Let pass 38 Mahon is its largest city 39 When it’s approximately 41 Dark red

dish brown 42 Some bridge holdings 43 Repu

tation 44 Left behind 46 N.Y.C. luggage tag letters 48 Thing placed during a political campaign 50 Work measure 52 “… despise not thy mother when she ___”: Proverbs 23:22 55 Green org. for women? 56 Out of harm’s way, in a way 57 ___ Journal (magazine) 60 E. Germany, before 1990