NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Enlivens

7 Salutes with

flutes?

13 Tried really hard 14 “Leading us off ...” 15 W.N.B.A. All-Star

Alyssa 16 Crushed-ice dessert with a reduplicative name

17 “___ been

wondering ...” 18 Suffix for a long

fund-raiser

20 La Brea

substance 21 Three-___ sloth 22 Study of insects,

for short

24 Item that might be left on a hotel pillow 25 One-named “Queen of All Media” 27 Counterpart of

sow

28 Scores 100 on 29 Its capital is

Tripoli

30 Shellfish that may be served cooked or raw 32 Curd-based drink 33 Aviate

34 Rosters 38 Black-and-white

breakfast cereal 40 Language in which “hello” is “kia ora”

41 “___ está usted?” 44 Black-and-white

whale 45 “No idea” gesture 46 Country that

borders Yemen 47 “The Color Purple” character ___ Avery 48 Hartford’s state:

Abbr.

49 Went unused 50 “Yeah, that didn’t escape my notice”

52 Curved path 53 “Ow!” 57 Pre-cable TV

appurtenance 60 Establishment that serves “purr”-over coffee?

61 “Living Single” creator ___ Lee Bowser

62 Not being manually operated 63 Agree to

something

Down

1 Winter clock

setting in Calif. 2 Addis Ababa’s

land

3 “A closed mouth doesn’t get fed” and others

4 Not too long

from now 5 Campus setting in the story collection “My Monticello,” in brief

6 Nuisance

7 Up to, informally 8 Spanish for “gold”

9 ___ Wednesday 10 Cause of some

cling

11 New Orleans

university 12 Cricket and

squash, for two 14 Giant narrative that may be about giants (and elves as well)

16 Tree whose pods contain a sweettasting pulp 19 Luke Cage’s title in his first comics appearance 21 Turnpike

payment 23 Choose 24 Chanteuse with chart-topping hits found at the tops of 4-, 14-, 16- and 19-Down 26 Eyebrows and

beards

31 Stately trees

35 Delta Sigma

Theta, for one 36 Shorten

37 Exit or Yield 39 Dawn goddess 41 Rival of Sam’s

Club

42 Resident of Nebraska’s largest city 43 Hakuna ___ (Swahili phrase meaning “no problems”) 51 Methods

54 Fort Worth sch. whose mascot is SuperFrog

55 All ___ and no

cattle 56 Mysterious sky

sighting 58 “Deliver Us From ___” (2003 rom-com) 59 Plural article in

French