NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Crooked, as a painting on the wall
6 Nine-digit ID
9 How revenge (or pizza for breakfast) is best served
13 Steeple
14 Noshed
15 Corporate rule
or regulation
16 Concept that can’t be criticized or questioned, metaphorically
18 Tennis’s Agassi 19 Torah holders
20 Bigeye or yellowfin tuna, at a sushi bar
21 Feel great
sorrow
22 Shout made with a fist pump
23 Seafood often served with picks
25 Dab, as with a
paper towel
27 Chicago trains 28 Not showy
30 Language spoken in Bangkok
32 Ballet dancer’s
knee bend
36 Preemployment investigation 39 “A guy walks into a bar …” may start one 40 Caesar’s words
to Brutus
41 Music Mann? 42 Shoofly ___ 43 Norway’s biggest city
44 Cocktail named for two iconic beverage brands
50 Catch forty winks
53 Changes, as a hemline
54 22-Across, in French
55 Regarding
56 Latin for “in itself”
57 Behaved in a laid-back way
59 Connections for car wheels
60 Author Edgar Allan ___
61 In an unusual way
62 Army’s football rival
63 Mr. Potato Head piece
64 Sell illegally, as tickets
DOWN
1 Test for purity 2 What a diagonal line represents on a bowling scoresheet
3 Relaxes
4 Commits a
fumble
5 Small, to a Scot 6 Borat creator ___ Baron Cohen
7 Showing no
emotion
8 Either “N” in
NY, NY
9 Jaded doubter 10 More ancient 11 Stage It’s Socially
21 Frozen
15 Poets
23 Viet butterfly’s development sort toward force 1960s-’70s) tossed ___ in of of a a inept yore the (armed bull’seye
26 Thumbs-up
24 Reeves “Matrix” Facebook of films the on
28 Gooey lunchbox
29 Language sandwich, informally spoken Vientiane in
31 Primitive Schlepped dwelling
32 TV’S Dr. ___
33 San Pellegrino offering
34 “Rocks” that clink in a drink
35 ___ out a living
37 Rider’s handful 38 Assignment a lawyer for
42 Removes skin from
43 “The Grapes of Wrath” figure
44 Mount Fuji’s locale
45 Amazon “assistant” 46 PC command to paste
47 Ken who wrote “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
48 Hot drink with marshmallows
49 Word before space or limits
51 Coral islet chain
52 Coral reef producer
55 “Highway to Hell” rock group … or a hint to electrical switches found in 16-, 23-, 36-, 44- and
57-Across
57 Gorilla, e.g. 58 Uno + uno