Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 “A-a-aand … ___!”
6 Character who nails a doubloon to the Pequod’s mast
10 One knocking on many doors
14 Cough drop flavoring
15 Surfer’s wish
16 Last remaining
17 First name in cosmetics
18 Polymath called “The First Teacher” by medieval scholars
20 What a multitasker might kill
22 Long, long time
23 Say further
24 Off the hook, so to speak
27 Author Zora ___ Hurston
29 Sunny side of breakfast
31 Digital number?
32 What it’s impossible to be in
35 Bobby-soxer’s dance
37 Boating noun and verb
38 Curator’s field
39 Reluctant to relive an experience
44 Subgenre lead-in
45 Plays the ponies, say
46 Sanctuaries
49 Farm animal, in tot-speak
51 Abbr. after a dot, usually
52 Slice (off)
54 Top-grossing movie of 1987
58 “Get out of bed, sleepyhead!”
60 Narrow
61 Something one may regret hitting
62 City of Paris?
63 Commercial 49-Across
64 Crafty site
65 ___ Gruber, archvillain in “Die Hard”
66 Finer points, slangily
Down
1 Biblical kingdom on the Arabian peninsula
2 Take on a joint
liability
3 Salad, sometimes, but soup, rarely
4 Desperate straits
5 Look up and down
6 Tony, e.g.
7 Word with copy or currency
8 Alamo competitor
9 “Settle down”
10 Bottoms out?
11 Forager with tiny hooks on its tongue
12 Afflicted
13 Do or ___ (hair salon name)
19 Maker of small front-end loaders
21 Inkling
25 Like half of the Odd Couple
26 Tolkien tree creature
28 Book it: Abbr.
29 Hearty affirmations
30 Noted honkytonk venue, familiarly
33 Damage, so to speak
34 Low islands
35 Where Miss Aloha Hula is crowned
36 Ones giving you a leg up?
39 Sound of a sock
40 F.D.R. purchased the first one
41 Curriculum overhaul triggered by the Sputnik crisis
42 Slice, e.g.
43 Spirit-filled?
47 Go by
48 “All right then”
50 The treat in “trick or treat”
51 Show 6-Downs
53 They’re lit at funerals
55 Razor brand
56 ___ tetra
57 What a haymaker makes
58 Manipulate
59 Stroke