NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Ancient arts

venue

6 The willies

10 Try for a hit 13 1979 J. D. Souther hit with a rhyming title 17 “Ugh, we nearly

had it!”

18 Beam 19 Forcefully 20 Desert home,

maybe

21 N.L. East team,

on scoreboards 22 Step toward

nirvana

24 Hall monitors,

for short 25 Edmond ___ a.k.a. the “Father of Whist”

27 Axe target 28 Constantly evolving social phenomenon 29 Magazine

purchase 31 Smoothie fruit 33 Pontiac, for one 35 Old pad holders 36 Means of escape 37 Completely

consume

39 Seat in

Parliament? 40 Longevity 43 Westernmost city on the African mainland 44 Winter hrs. in

St. Louis 45 Team that moved back from St. Louis in 2016, informally 47 Letters used in the absence of a letter

48 ___ Productions, media company since 1986 51 One way to run 52 End of many

addresses 53 What’s measured in watts 57 Symphony originally dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte 58 Shape of a

logistic curve 59 Takes credit, in a

way

60 “___ luck!”

Down

1 Cries of

exasperation 2 Revenue source for a Girl Scout troop

3 Bush growths 4 Air France hub 5 Prefix with

classical 6 Casting choice 7 Ophthalmologist’s prescription 8 Bottom-row key 9 Bonheur who painted “The Horse Fair”

10 In no time 11 Southern Comfort cocktails 12 Singer/actor Gibson in the “Fast & Furious” franchise 14 Dept. of Labor

arm

15 “Nifty!”

16 OK

21 “Got it!”

22 Actor George of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” 23 More than sore 26 ___ art 28 Comics read from right to left

30 Bob ___, “To Kill a Mockingbird” villain

32 Is undecided 34 Creamed 38 Good day?:

Abbr. 39 “Things Fall

Apart” novelist 41 Thalia, Aglaia and Euphrosyne, in myth

42 “The accuser of our brethren,” per Revelation 46 1970s-’80s

sitcom setting 49 Election night

fig.

50 Roman emperor who overthrew Galba 52 Sockeye

relative 54 Kerfuffle

55 Old televangelism org.

56 Vitamin stat