NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Goof
16 Mischievous character in West African folklore
17 Hosts
18 David who took
15 years to write “The History of England”
19 Cut into
20 Andy Capp’s wife in the comics
21 Somme times
22 Fabergé egg recipient
24 “The pretty worm of Nilus … that kills and pains not,” per Shakespeare
26 Concept in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism
30 Swashbuckler’s implement
32 Course
34 “You couldn’t be more wrong!”
35 Diplomatic successes
39 Find inner strength
41 ___ Island
42 Will can change it
44 Total package?
46 Shameless sycophant
49 Doubly hyphenated fig.
50 Book it
52 Where the idiom “on a roll” comes from
55 Self starter?
57 Attendant of Dionysus
60 New Balance competitor
61 Passiveaggressive tactic
64 Renter’s amenity
65 Gaze at with appreciation
Down
1 Computer store
2 Have ___ (be able to save face)
3 Hit hard
4 Snarl
5 Sch. whose yearbook is the “Gumbo”
6 Strauss’s “___ Nacht in Venedig”
7 Brouhaha
8 Aim for
9 Sets right
10 “Seriously!”
11 Place of salubrity
12 Two in a row, say?
13 Capital city near Kangaroo Island
14 It’s called paraffin oil in the U.K.
15 Starts of hedges
23 Unkempt
25 Hold (up)
27 Unfulfilled duty
28 Staff
29 Sine qua non
31 What a whale watcher may watch
33 Mystery writer
Buchanan
35 Doesn’t go straight, in a way
36 Birthplace of Lewis Carroll
37 Julius Caesar’s first wife
38 Wordsworth wrote one about a cuckoo
40 Web access co.
43 It has furrowed gray bark
45 Came in behind
47 ___ Brown, Whoopi Goldberg’s role in “Ghost”
48 Established facts
51 Like some
44-Across
53 Part of mayo that’s most popular?
54 No longer on the table
56 Cranks (up)
58 Urges
59 Play a critical role?
61 Block letters?
62 Bryce Harper when he won a 2015 M.V.P. award, e.g.
63 Tax