N.Y. Times Crossword Puzzle
1 Enlivens
7 Salutes with flutes?
13 Tried really hard
14 “Leading us off ...”
15 W.N.B.A. All-Star Alyssa
16 Crushed-ice dessert with a reduplicative name
17 “___ been wondering ...”
18 Suffix for a long fund-raiser
20 La Brea substance
21 Three-___ sloth
22 Study of insects, for short
24 Item that might be left on a hotel pillow
25 One-named “Queen of All Media”
27 Counterpart of sow
28 Scores 100 on
29 Its capital is
Tripoli
30 Shellfish that may be served cooked or raw
32 Curd-based drink
33 Aviate
34 Rosters
38 Black-and-white breakfast cereal
40 Language in which “hello” is “kia ora”
41 “___ está usted?”
44 Black-and-white whale
45 “No idea” gesture
46 Country that borders Yemen
47 “The Color Purple” character ___ Avery
48 Hartford’s state: Abbr.
49 Went unused
50 “Yeah, that didn’t escape my notice”
52 Curved path 53 “Ow!”
57 Pre-cable TV
appurtenance
60 Establishment that serves “purr”-over coffee?
61 “Living Single” creator ___ Lee Bowser
62 Not being manually operated
63 Agree to something
Down
1 Winter clock setting in Calif.
2 Addis Ababa’s land
3 “A closed mouth doesn’t get fed” and others
4 Not too long from now
5 Campus setting in the story collection “My Monticello,” in brief
6 Nuisance
7 Up to, informally
8 Spanish for “gold” 9 ___ Wednesday
10 Cause of some cling
11 New Orleans university
12 Cricket and squash, for two
14 Giant narrative that may be about giants (and elves as well)
16 Tree whose pods contain a sweet-tasting pulp
19 Luke Cage’s title in his first comics appearance
21 Turnpike payment
23 Choose
24 Chanteuse with chart-topping hits found at the tops of 4-, 14-, 16- and 19Down
26 Eyebrows and beards
31 Stately trees
35 Delta Sigma Theta, for one
36 Shorten
37 Exit or Yield
39 Dawn goddess
41 Rival of Sam’s Club
42 Resident of Nebraska’s largest city
43 Hakuna ___ (Swahili phrase meaning “no problems”)
51 Methods
54 Fort Worth sch. whose mascot is SuperFrog
55 All ___ and no cattle
56 Mysterious sky sighting
58 “Deliver Us From ___” (2003 romcom)
59 Plural article in French