NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Enlivens
7 Salutes with flutes?
13 Tried really hard 14 “Leading us off ...”
15 W.N.B.A. Allstar 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-andwhite 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 sweet-tasting 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 romcom)
59 Plural article in French