NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Hardly a quick
read
5 Boom box
contents? 8 Medieval lockup 12 Well versed in 13 Fly “away!”
14 Big metal
manufacturer 16 Engage in scrambling or bouldering 18 Coruscate 19 Experience
euphoria 21 Chinese dynasty in which gunpowder was invented 22 Shape of some
desks
23 Green house? 24 Never 26 Light-sensitive
cells
28 Lead-in to gender 30 Tower of London
figure
31 Sarcastic expression of gratitude 34 Massive step forward, so to speak
35 They’re inclined to
help beginners 36 Playground retort 37 “Long,” in
Hawaiian
38 Shouts of joy 42 Bringing in, as a
sail
44 Spa treatment, for
short
46 Exemplary
individual
47 Third of the
peerage ranks 48 Youngest White House resident since John F. Kennedy Jr. 51 Didn’t go out,
maybe 53 Feature of many a documentary 54 Not as open 55 “Gotcha” 56 Inclination 57 Some hydrating skin care products 58 Identifiers of a
sort: Abbr. 59 Unchanged
DOWN
1 One hoping to
catch a break 2 Program started
under Kennedy 3 Lose momentum 4 Paul who sang with Sam Cooke and Neil Sedaka on the 1963 album “3 Great Guys” 5 Roughly a quarter of Girl Scout cookie sales 6 Danish restaurant with “Best Restaurant in the World” accolades
7 ___ Heath, U.S.
women’s soccer star 8 Comedic bit
9 A real piece of
cake
10 Flow chart? 11 Upper bound at a
bank
13 Narrow landforms prevalent in Zion National Park 15 California-based biotechnology giant
17 Windy City commuters’ inits. 20 Landmark in Madrid, Oslo or Brussels 25 [Snicker]
27 High roller? 29 Where sockets are
found
32 City in the Red
River delta 33 Blended products 34 Reality show whose cast appeared in the music video for Taylor Swift’s “You Need to Calm Down”
35 They require
inspiration 36 Disciplines 39 Some nectar
sources
40 Like the Mocha
coffee bean 41 Really hurts 43 First name in
California politics 45 College in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa 49 Decent 50 “Bubbles” in a
drink
52 New Deal-era org.