NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Like the national currency known as the tala 7 Axilla 13 “Hold on there
now!” 15 Chasm 16 Powerful pitch 17 Settled with 18 London locale:
Abbr. 19 Like the outer
core of the earth 21 Certain logic
gate 22 One Direction
member Payne 24 The Flying
Dutchman, e. g. 25 Limb- entangling
weapon 26 One nearly cut Bond in half in “Goldfinger” 29 Rise up 30 1983 doubleplatinum album by Duran Duran 31 Everyday productivity enhancer, in modern lingo 33 Fictional character whose name is French for “flight of death” 36 Leading newspaper that took its name from a stage comedy 37 It’s nothing,
really 38 One making
introductions 39 “You can’t make
me!” 44 Queen dowager
of Jordan 45 Beyond repair 46 Ago, in an
annual song 47 Animal with
horns 48 Norman ___, first Asian- American to hold a cabinet post 50 Abbr. in an office
address 51 Princess cake
and others 53 Simply not done 56 Show disdain for,
in a way 57 Subject of some PC Magazine reviews 58 Mixed forecasts? 59 N. F. L. Hallof- Famer nicknamed “The Kansas Comet”
Down
1 Singer Twain 2 Blood lines 3 “Are you ___?!” 4 Cries that might be made while hopping on one foot 5 Slight
interruption 6 Sure- to- succeed 7 One with commercial interests, for short 8 Nothing, in
Nantes 9 Chant often heard toward the end of an N. B. A. season 10 Rick’s, for one 11 Speech habits unique to an individual 12 The first one was delivered in 1984 13 “___ Stop the
Rain” ( 1970 hit) 14 Fright night? 20 Pusillanimous 23 More festive 25 Views 27 Hiker’s climb 28 Six- time Hugo Award winner Ben 29 Invoice word 32 Actress Sherilyn who was an Emmy nominee for “Twin Peaks” 33 Common ingredient in furniture polish 34 “No doubt!” 35 NASA spacecraft designed for travel to Mars 36 Units at a horse
race 40 Whiskered
animals 41 With 54- Down, longtime Long Island home of Theodore Roosevelt 42 Lays to rest 43 Frigid temps 45 They may have
bullets 48 Main thrust 49 Field 52 The Nikkei 225 is one of its indexes: Abbr. 54 See 41- Down 55 Some lines of
Milton