NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
No. 0601
ACROSS
1 Poetry showdown
5 Third word in many limericks
8 URL opener
12 Placed a curse on
14 “Let’s do the Time ___ again” (campy 1970s lyric)
15 Prominent elephant features
16 First AfricanAmerican to win the Oscar for Best Actress
18 Greenish blue
19 He might have done it with the candlestick in the study
21 Figure skating biopic of 2017
22 Game console that sounds like a pronoun
23 Wall St. debut
25 “No bid,” in bridge 26 Blanket ___ (bad bed partner)
29 “See ya!”
31 Broke bread
32 User of the Force
33 Signify
34 Turned out successfully ... or what the parents of 16-, 19-, 52- and 57-Across did?
36 Titular Mozart opera character
39 Better ___ ever
40 Computer addresses, for short
43 Had a taste of
44 Note after fa 45 “Hurry!”
46 Like a floor with a “Caution” sign
47 Reddit Q&A
50 Mideast country west
of 32-Down
52 Mario’s love interest in Super Mario games
56 Unexciting, as a bar scene
57 Pop star with the 1996 3x platinum album “Tidal”
59 Second word in many limericks
60 Cuckoo
61 Spending jag
62 “Tell Mama” singer James
63 Laugh for a corny joke
64 Part of NYU
DOWN
1 Library caution
2 Accepted without hesitation
3 Rocker who sang “Paradise City”
4 Cantaloupes and such
5 Subjects of many epics
6 Symbol on a One Way sign
7 “Heidi” author Johanna
8 Get better, as a wound
9 Mexican food similar to a flauta
10 Jazz band instrument
11 “Here’s some important info ...,” in brief
13 Resist, as orders
14 Director Anderson
17 Save the day
20 Enter en masse, as a car
21 Choice at a microbrewery, for short
24 Get a lode of this!
27 Wordsworth work
28 ESP and photographic memory, for two
30 Carpenter ___
32 Mideast country east of 50-Across
33 Singer with the 2019 #2 hit “Don’t Start Now”
34 Modern term of endearment
35 Letter after pi
36 Online initialism of rejoicing
37 “Forgive me, Father”
38 Part of the digestive system, in brief
40 Tech release of 2017
41 Amy who achieved fame on 42-Down
42 See 41-Down
45 Lousy
48 Marty ___, “Back to the Future” protagonist
49 Letters in a so-called
“supervocalic” word
51 Aegean and Baltic, for two
53 It’s a thought
54 Fashion no-no with a flip-flop
55 ___-Cat (ski resort vehicle)
56 John or Jane, in court
58 Cartoonish shriek