Antelope Valley Press

NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

- Edited by Will Shortz PUZZLE BY JOHN GUZZETTA

ACROSS

1 They often come

in shoeboxes

9 Key

13 Widespread rumors, in a portmantea­u

15 It’s handled at a

bar

16 Post-crisis

baseline

17 Like the second movement of Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony 18 Family nickname 19 “The ultimate form of free speech,” to Denis Leary

21 ___ tape 22 Streaked

24 Not sit still

26 Died down

29 Tony Stark or Jack

Sparrow feature 31 Meet 34 MacGyverin­g 36 Gets less green,

say 38 Mathematic­al

subgroup

39 Puffed up 40 Possible response to “Did you find it?” 43 Some records,

informally 44 Remington of

1980s TV

45 Actor Fitch of

“This Is Us”

47 As yet

49 Parts of LEDs 53 Berkeley,

familiarly

54 In working order 57 ___-Saint-Michel, abbey site in France

58 Flattens, in a

way

60 Underlying

reason

62 Saul Bellow’s “The Adventures of ___ March” 63 Beyoncé’s “Dangerousl­y in Love” or John Lennon’s “Imagine”

64 Gem used in

intaglio

65 They are felt every

April

DOWN

1 Slight faults, to a

rater

2 Reluctant to join? 3 Words after god or

man

4 ___ Coleman, eighttime Mr. Olympia 5 Kerfuffle

6 “Thanks a lot!,” in intentiona­lly butchered French 7 ___ belt

8 Ananda Mahidol became its king at the age of 9, while living in Switzerlan­d 9 Spanish diminutive 10 Pay for a crime, say 11 “Oh, come on, can’t you take a joke?!”

12 Biblical figure said to have died at the age of 905

14 Sign in front of

some bars 15 Trickster 20 Stepping away

from screens 23 Lunchbox option, informally 25 Silences 27 Concupisce­nt one 28 Appliance giant founded

in England in 1991 30 They’re sometimes replaced by applesauce in vegan recipes 31 Strikes out, slangily 32 “See ya!” 33 Branch of causality that comes from the Greek for “study of the end” 35 Mortgage deal, for

short

37 Like many defendants in court 41 Word with escape

or escalator 42 Camp-y retailer? 46 ___ Peninsula

(Horn of Africa) 48 Rabbit ___

50 “The origin of wisdom,” per René Descartes

51 Follow

52 Asparagus, essentiall­y 53 “See ya!”

55 Eject

56 Actress Kirke of

“Mozart in the Jungle” 59 Shoot down

61 One in line at an

airport

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