Antelope Valley Press

NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

- Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Three-point letter you won’t find in Scrabble?

4 One of the Pointer

Sisters

9 Chips, cookies, etc. 13 Response to “Who’s ready?” 14 Not free

16 Word with square or air

17 Mercury is in this 20 “I’ve got it!” 21 Dangers in the

Amazon

22 What subs may

sub for 23 Afterword

25 One with many stuffy clients, for short?

26 Mercury might be

in this

28 ___ Polo 30 Christmas party? 31 Party in the U.K. 32 Light touches

36 Is insufficie­nt 39 Hipsteresq­ue,

say

40 Something posted from an online account

42 ___ nationalis­m, movement associated with the Baath Party

44 Here we are! 45 The Mercury might

be in this

51 Rio or Sorento 52 Have no more in

stock

54 Unit of

radioactiv­ity

55 Lab report component 57 Doesn’t bother 58 Mercury was in

this

61 English poet

Wilfred ___ 62 Ice cream brand in West Coast supermarke­ts 63 Prefix with

-phyte

64 One’s parents, slangily, with “the”

65 Square

66 Sch. in Texas

DOWN

1 Chewy, meaty dog

treat

2 Show of hands? 3 Turkish inn

4 “___ way!” (“Nice

job!”)

5 Reply found backward in “No thanks”

6 Clinch, as a victory 7 Lethargic

8 Answer to the riddle “What can someone wear that never goes out of style?” 9 Some Feds 10 Choice words 11 Having a neat

appearance

12 The 19th Amendment is part of this 14 Reply in which one parent says to go talk to the other parent 15 Bullfight bull 18 Burn the surface of 19 Heated pool? 23 “And so ...” 24 Total hassle 27 Goggle 29 Org. for lawyers 31 Sliceable food

purchase

32 Game for a toddler 33 Smoothie bar order served with a spoon 34 Defeated soundly 35 Good to go 37 Brand once promoted as the “forbidden fragrance” 38 “Phooey!”

41 Allure

43 Curling targets 45 Cautionary store sign from an alcohol retailer 46 Used

47 “Phooey!”

48 Light charges? 49 Centrist in British

politics, informally 50 “Bye!”

53 Fridge visit for a midnight snack, say

56 Bowling pins on

the back right 57 ___ gai (Thai dish) 59 Main ingredient in

a Longshorem­an 60 “Tee” follower

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