The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Ruler who died

in 30 B.C. 10 Panic button 15 Ticket request 16 Alice with a Nobel Prize in Literature 17 Weave 18 Co-star of Wood in “The Lord of the Rings”

19 Land of ___ (where 1-Down lived)

20 Legal

conclusion? 21 Doesn’t get

involved 22 Cajolery

25 One of two

polar opposites 28 Standard

product, once 29 “___ It Time” (1977 hit for the Babys) 33 Unlikely Top 40

songs

34 More au

courant

36 Find common

ground 39 Ironic reaction

to dry humor? 40 Has a great night at the comedy club 41 Tribe encountered by Lewis and Clark 42 One of the jacks in cribbage 43 Dearies 44 Much of the text of a Supreme Court decision

47 Big gaps 50 Hawaiian

souvenir 51 Floppy disk

creator

54 River of forgetfulness, in myth 55 Image on the Maine or South Carolina flag

58 Some “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” costumes 59 Trades 60 Pallid and unhealthy in appearance 61 Sizable ordinal

Down

1 Problematic

firstborn 2 Lead-in to type 3 Abbr. on a city

boundary sign 4 Pamplona

plaudit

5/

6 Out

7 Rib 8 Competition that hurts everyone

9 Got into a

pickle? 10 Some WikiLeaks leaks

11 Words after

“Ha, ha” 12 Drs. that see

head cases 13 Home, in slang 14 Orlando, in the

music world 21 State capital that was a boyhood home of Herbert Hoover 22 Lacking

focus

23 “You sure

about that?” 24 Weary

25 Kid’s proud

retort

26 Moved furtively 27 Letters sung as mi, mi, re, re, do 30 Move furtively 31 Nervous ___ 32 Lock 35 Olympus rival 37 Pram pushers,

perhaps 38 Ring data 43 Intimate

45 ___ board 46 Civil rights org.

since 1909 47 Thunderous

sound 48 Goddess of

marriage 49 Some bill

collectors 51 Decrease? 52 Like lop ears 53 Go well (with) 55 Long-running drama set in N.Y.C., informally 56 When la Bastille was stormed 57 Word with black or blood

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