NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 In-box material for some agents 8 Red, white and blue group 15 Stock pantomime character 16 Decorative

server 17 Ahead 18 Wise words 19 Prefix with car 20 Boglike 22 Puts one’s foot

down 23 A cyclone is a

big one 24 Wisconsin port 26 Bad start? 27 Put to work 32 Writer of the lines “Pigeons on the grass alas. / Pigeons on the grass alas” 35 “The Mikado”

weapon 36 Emperor who built the Domus Aurea 37 Gerontologist’s

study 40 You might hear a children’s song in one 41 Some fairy story

villains 42 Dispatch 43 Watching the

big game, say 45 Army missions 46 Like Rome, it’s

said 48 Blue, in a way:

Abbr. 51 Defiant

response 55 Skating spot,

maybe 56 Symbol of elasticity, in economics 57 Paper work 59 Server of food that may be steamed, fried or raw 61 Went in

tandem? 62 Many are found

on beaches 63 Gets down 64 Nonsense DOWN 1 Door-to-door delivery 2 Important part of mayo 3 Plant more crops in 4 N.Y.C. line 5 Alpha senior? 6 One side in the Revolutionary War 7 Serious 8 Common 31

Down: Abbr. 9 Saltier 10 Neither good

nor evil 11 Dance element 12 Iris’s location 13 Orangish gem 14 Wall St.

manipulators 21 1968 #2 hit with the lyric “My love for you is way out of line” 25 Dance

elements 26 Mustang

competitor 28 Inti

worshipers 29 End of a

dictionary 30 At one time in

the past? 31 Prescribed

amount 32 Town in ’44

headlines 33 Gracile 34 Ones unable to

swim straight? 35 Bag 38 “Kiss Me, Kate”

song 39 “Gimme a

break!” 44 XX 45 Annie once played by Ethel Merman 47 Iridescent

material 48 Messing around

on TV? 49 Members of les Nations Unies 50 Reed section? 51 Items in

buckets 52 Forte 53 Privateer who captained the Blessed William 54 Quaint

shout 58 They may be checked at an airport 60 Part of a

barn