N.Y. Times Crossword Puzzle
Across
1 Sleeper’s support 8 Quick refresher 14 “The Spoonful of Milk” painter, 1912
15 Whom The New York Times conamed athlete of the year, with Babe Ruth, in 1920
16 Peppery orangered condiment 17 What a single is
worth
18 Toy inspector? 20 Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris, once: Abbr. 21 Missed-the-turn
maneuver
22 Not doing
anything
26 What comes
before a final 29 Some bands’
practice sessions 31 Place to get a
platza treatment 32 Gymnast
Raisman 33 Simplest choice 34 State of ___ 35 Condone an
action tacitly 38 Secretly pass
gas?
39 M.L.B. great with a famous “unbreakable” streak, familiarly 40 Ottoman authority 41 ___ fusion
42 Antidiscrimination govt. agency 43 Nautical ropes 44 Do some
branding? 45 Mexican freetailed ___ (world’s fastest horizontal flier)
46 Place to go, for
short
48 “Damn right!” 54 One who is mean
as the Dickens? 57 “Ohhh …” 58 “September 1,
1939” poet 59 “Never heard that
before” 60 45-Across, for
one 61 Bridesmaids’
expenses
Down
1 Great deal
2 “This can’t be
happening” 3 Biter
4 Tennis great nicknamed “The Punisher”
5 Tool that you turn
on 6 His “Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy” was the first album to debut at #1 on Billboard
7 What the “angler” on a deep-sea anglerfish can do
8 It may go on sale
on November 1 9 Uncommon blood type, for short 10 “Admittedly …” 11 Group that had the first hardcore rap album to reach #1 on Billboard
12 Power couple?
13 Intro to cognition 15 Pouts
19 UPS fleet
23 Place for a
working model 24 Get involved 25 They’re chosen for their highgrade potential
26 Red or green
condiments
27 Fictional girl who says “I go to all the weddings in the White and Gold room and I usually stay for the reception” 28 What LASIK
treats 30 Metric unit equal to 100 square meters 31 Take off, as a
layer
33 Lots and lots 34 Popular TNT drama that starred Kyra Sedgwick 36 World capital whose name means “elephant trunk” in Arabic 37 As well 42 Polished off 43 Objects thrown out hotel windows, in a rock ’n’ roll cliché 45 Zero, in scoring
slang
47 “___ there yet?” 49 Morning host
Kotb
50 Discover
51 Pizza chain,
informally
52 1990 World Cup
final city
53 Milk sources for pecorino Romano 54 Personal ad abbr. 55 Cuppa from
China
56 Hit head-on