NY Times Puzzle No. 1205
ACROSS
1 “Stat!”
5 Like most Italian nouns ending in -o: Abbr.
9 Volcanic residue 12 1/26.2 of a
marathon
13 SiriusXM medium
14 Cheek swab
material
15 *Number of copies requested by a publisher
17 Howard who narrates “Arrested Development”
18 *Barriers that slide in and out of a wall
20 Shriveled
23 Temporary relief
24 Ship’s backbone
25 Roast beef au
___
27 Texter’s sign-off 28 Actor McKellen who played Gandalf
29 “Mayday!”
30 Org. with a Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list
32 *Stereotypical
literary persona
38 Hardwood tree
39 One side in
checkers
40 Longoria of “Desperate Housewives”
41 “Dancing Queen”
group
44 “Golly!”
45 “Right away,
boss!”
46 Skin spot
49 Tight
undergarment
51 *Designer’s
collection
53 Picnic pest
54
58
Irritable ... or how you might describe all the words in the answers to the starred clues?
Wedding words
59 Pie-in-the-face
sound
60 Diamond Head’s
island
61
62
63
Heed the coxswain
Sharp and shrewd
Staircase part
DOWN
1 Bit of concert
equipment
2 What the Portuguese “senhor” means
3 Actor Mahershala
of “Moonlight”
4 Snail-mail
correspondent
5 Swindler’s victim
6 Some venomous
snakes
7 Dos + cinco
8 Bungee cables,
for example
9 Skillful
10
Like high-strung horses
11 Fairy tale brother
13
Mountaineering enthusiast, in slang
16 Boatload
19
Fiber-___ cable
20 Hits the slopes
21
Track meet event
PUZZLE BY NATE CARDIN
22 City mentioned at the start of the Grateful Dead’s “Friend of the Devil”
26
29
Show people to their seats, informally
Genre for the 1990s band Sublime
30 Something you don’t have to pay for, redundantly
31
Rotten 33 Ted Lasso, for
one
34 “___ we there
yet?”
35 Maintain, as a
bar
36 Rotten
37 Give stars, say
41 Common plot point on a soap opera
42 “The Godfather”
Oscar winner
44
45 Cookie-flavored
breakfast cereal
47 Merchant’s booth
48 Jeweler’s lens
50 Helpful
connections
52 Student ___
forgiveness
55 Smallest of the Chinese zodiac animals
56 Fill-in-___-blank
43 Present, as a
prize 57
Having a light touch