Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The New York Times crossword puzzle
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 signoff
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 Irritable ... or how you might describe all the words in the answers to the starred clues?
58 Wedding words
59 Pie-in-the-face sound
60 Diamond Head’s island
61 Heed the coxswain
62 Sharp and shrewd
63 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 highstrung horses
11 Fairy tale brother
13 Mountaineering enthusiast, in slang
16 Boatload
19 Fiber-___ cable
20 Hits the slopes
21 Track meet event
22 City mentioned at the start of the Grateful Dead’s “Friend of the Devil”
26 Show people to their seats, informally
29 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
43 Present, as a prize
44 Having a light touch
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
57 “How’s it goin’?”