Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Wall light 7 “Well, excu-uuse me!” 14 Frisk
15 What short
sleeves leave 16 Feebleness 17 Wholly
18 The religiously
unaffiliated 19 Wipe out 20 Carrier to
Tokyo 21 Monk’s title 22 Single-___ 24 Twerp
25 Terse response accepting responsibility 27 Unnerving
look
30 4K
32 Midwest
tribe
33 Private R&R 34 Frustrating place to be stranded 38 Gambling card game that up to 10 may comfortably play at once 40 Involve, as in
controversy 41 Some social media celebrities 45 Days of old 46 Decays
47 Pair
49 Org. that penalizes carrying 50 Places where people wear masks, for short 51 Actress Katherine of “27 Dresses” 53 Fool
55 Like well-connected investigative reporters, say
57 Detests
58 “If ... then”
sort of thinker 59 Faux brother of a popular rock group 60 Do a school visit, in a way?
61 Play favorites
with
Down
1 Rare-earth element named after where it was discovered 2 Engage in
some P.D.A. 3 Handy item in
the kitchen? 4 The ___ Nugget (alliteratively named newspaper since 1897) 5 English potato
chip
6 Subj. of a
“Delayed” sign 7 Cheese sometimes flavored with dill
8 Subjects of
tests for purity 9 “___ sorry …” 10 Beam 11 Illinois college
town
12 Key of Mozart’s
“Requiem” 13 Demesne 15 Greek city visited by Paul before Athens 19 Sized up 23 Stick
24 Like a
cloudless night 26 Gets carried
away 28 Capturer of an unguarded remark
29 Stick in a
cabinet, say 31 Latin 101
word
35 Clear choice for
auto buyers 36 Like the 101st
Division
37 Skin care
product 39 Kind of velocity in planetary physics
40 And others:
Abbr.
41 Some social media commenters 42 Kept going and
going
43 “We’ve got the
green light” 44 Most common
noble gas 48 Hinder 51 “Shoot!” 52 Emmy winner Falco 54 “Heavens to
Betsy!”
56 Wine aperitif 57 One of the first artists to incorporate random chance