NY Times Puzzle No. 0127
ACROSS
1 “Out!”
6 Area of a room,
e.g.
10 Characters in the
“Iliad”?
15 2010 biodrama co-starring 18-Across
18 See 15-Across
19 Frustrated and betting emotionally, in poker lingo
20 Skaggs of
bluegrass fame
21 Trailblazing astronaut Jemison
22 Make, with “out”
23 Some daring
ascents
25 1970s-‘80s TV character to whom the phrase “jumped the shark” originally referred
26 Barrett who co-founded Pink Floyd
27 29 Floats No good at all
30 Deems proper
32 Greek peak
33 Cousin of “Skol!”
35 Inspiration for van
Gogh
37 Upset
38 Big source for entertainment news
41 Glowing signs
42 Ran over
43 Not over the Internet, to a texter
46 Cardboard
recycling unit
47 Get slick, in a way
49 “I never knew!”
50 Existential
question
51 Moriarty who wrote “Nine Perfect Strangers”
54 Match points? 56 1995 alternative rock album by 59-Across that is one of the bestselling albums of all time
59 See 56-Across
60 Where orders
come from
61 Actress Taylor-Joy of “The Queen’s Gambit”
62 “Peace”
DOWN
1 The Hawks of the N.C.A.A., familiarly
2 Alternative to smooth, at the grocery
3 Back from
vacation, say
4 Sweet Italian
bubbly
5 Does drudgery,
old-style
6 Go for a lap?
7 Form couples
8 Active volcano near Peru’s dormant Pichu Pichu
9 “Squawk on the Street” airer
10 “Just doing my job”
11 One that gives a hoot
12 Burns poem that opens “Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim’rous beastie” 13 Home of the only active diamond mine in the U.S. 14 Morally repulsive, in slang
16 Tallest freestanding structure in the Western Hemisphere
17 Startled cry
24 Misses
25 Choreographer
Bob
28 “___ Nacht”
(Christmas carol)
29 Cut next to the
ribs
30 River spanned by the Pont Alexandre III
31 Slippery
swimmers
33 Genesee Brewery offering
34 Ruffian
36 Lighting of the Olympic flame, and others
39 That’s what you
think!
40 “It was worth a
shot”
41 Classic arcade game in which players can be “on fire”
43 Set on fire
44 Industry with lots
to offer 45 ___ Newman, author of “Heather Has Two Mommies”
48 Ink, so to speak
51 Gifts at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport
52 Fingers
53 ___ mater
55 Sports sticker?
57 Serengeti grazer 58 Aunt, in Arequipa