NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
No. 0904
ACROSS
1 Rush order 10 Capital on the
Gulf of Guinea 15 Bet involving score
totals
16 Sight at low tide 17 Mental or fiscal
tightness
18 Just under way,
so to speak
19 “90 Day Fiancé”
channel
20 TV lingo for using established hits to prop up weaker shows
22 Govt. plant
inspector
24 The Greek philosopher Empedocles leapt into its flames, in legend 25 Annual celebration during which sweeping is taboo 27 Car model whose name becomes an NBA superstar when its middle letter is removed 29 Move, informally 30 Needing a jolt 33 Iranian port near
the Iraq border 35 Out of whimsy 36 In the works 37 Waifs
38 Latin American
spread
39 First two words of Shelley’s “Ozymandias” 40 Falling hard? 42 Bivouac sight 43 Term terminus 44 Roves (about)
48 Someone who
has it all 51 Favorite 52 Favorite novelist
of Twihards
53 As you like it 55 Sty sound 56 Completely routs 57 Try to get down 58 Got in a
lather, say
DOWN
1 Admit
2 Cricket fields, e.g. 3 Swag for sale 4 Sounds of
hesitation
5 Give notice 6 Access to a country club, in brief?
7 “Better off not
knowing” 8 Hockey players who face off in a face-off 9 Superman’s dog 10 Havens 11 “Parasite” co-star ___ Woo-shik 12 Considered a
participant 13 Chaparral or
savanna 14 Calculus prerequisite: Abbr.
21 1914 Freud essay that introduced the concept of “ego ideal” 23 Mostly online
writing genre 26 Kingdom whose capital is Nuku’alofa 28 Effervescence 29 Tartare topper
30 “___ is the beginning of wisdom ... not the end”: Spock 31 Shortly
32 “Right back
atcha”
34 Hippie confab 36 Ancient siege weapon for launching stones 38 Florida city with a large Cuban American population (70+%) 41 Electron attractors 43 Malt liquor bottle,
in slang
45 Where some high schoolers get DNA tests? 46 Burrow (into) 47 Marengo, for
Napoleon
49 “Jobs vs. Gates: The Hippie and the ___” (2015 TV movie) 50 Hip-hop subgenre 52 Slush pile
contents: Abbr. 54 Greeting in Rio