NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Shape, as clay 5 Brother of Cain 9 Alpha’s opposite 14 Cookie that’s often pulled apart 15 ___ someone to tears
16 Song snippet 17 Containers for leftovers 19 Singer Shore or Washington 20 Charms
21 “I’m finished after this” 23 Tooth in the back of the mouth 24 Mexican moolah 25 Prominent position from which to pontificate 31 Island state of Australia 35 Jerry’s gal pal on “Seinfeld” 36 James who wrote “A Death in the Family”
37 Old Renault 39 Slender shorebird 40 Capital of Angola 42 Got back to
44 In a diagonal position (to) 46 Upright, as a box 47 Annoy with endless talk
52 Bit of acting-out in a parlor game 55 Peter of the “Pink Panther” films 57 Sponsorship
58 Savings repository for a kid
60 Thin and bony 61 Excited about 62 One of the Great Lakes 63 Mournful poem 64 “Untouchable” Eliot
65 Gave the once-over
DOWN
1 Internet hookup device 2 University of Maine town 3 Permissible
4 Accepted doctrine 5 Mon., for Monday 6 Fancy items of neckwear
7 Unit of work 8 Stahl of
“60 Minutes” 9 King Cole was a “merry” one 10 Comment made when itching to leave a dull party 11 Rubik with a famous cube 12 Composer ___ Carlo Menotti 13 Painful throb 18 ___ Linda, California birthplace of Richard Nixon 22 Speak ill of 24 Protester’s sign, e.g. 26 Not tied, as sneakers 27 Falsehood 28 Santa Monica landmark 29 Memo opener 30 Watch, as a bar 31 Powder in a medicine cabinet
32 Spanish water 33 What an usher ushers you to 34 Helping a protégé
38 ___ Arbor, Mich. 41 Ming or Qing, in Chinese history 43 With tongue in cheek 45 Nearest target for a bowler 48 Playwright Edward who wrote “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” 49 Arctic explorer Robert 50 Nickname for Schwarzenegger 51 Clucked in disapproval 52 Home for a pet bird
53 Get better 54 Fever and chills
55 Ones ranked above cpls. 56 Things bigheaded people have 59 Suffix with nectar or serpent