Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The New York Times crossword puzzle
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1 Lawn game played with a ball known as a pallino
6 Thin snack
11 Formal words of commitment
13 Omitted, as
a syllable
15 Toyed (with)
17 Neighborhood in lower Manhattan
18 Exhibited heliotropism, as a flower
20 Plus-or-minus
one?
21 Joe’s co-host on “Morning Joe”
22 Part of a
Tolkien army
23 Big fuss
25 What gives a
gin fizz its fizz
26 Novelist
Brontë
27 Prepared for
an oral exam?
30 Construction
beam
32 Abolitionist who wrote “Twelve Years a Slave”
37 Fantasy sports scoring standard, informally
38 Bygone phrase
for “gone by”
39 “Enough!
I get it!”
42 Overly proper
44 Cambridge or Oxford, to a Londoner
45 Big initials
in theaters
46 Dip that might be made in a molcajete, informally
47 Poor
review
49 Went uneaten, as some groceries
54 Classic Asimov
collection
55 Part of a calendar septet, and a phonetic hint to this puzzle’s theme
56 Florida’s “Sunshine City,” for short
57 Futile
58 Philly basketball player
59 Leafs (through)
Down
1 Bully in “Back
to the Future”
2 Home for the artist Edvard Munch
3 Spicy ramen
condiment
4 Monte ___
5 John who sang “Bennie and the Jets”
6 Exploded
7 Lei man’s
term?
8 Rank’s counterpart, on a chessboard
9 New Jersey city named for its most famous former resident
10 Come back
12 ___ Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, formerly)
14 Ballet or
ballroom, e.g.
16 First phase of
a home reno
19 Finished off
23 Word after
kick or bad
24 “The Way,” in
Chinese Pinyin
25 Track-and-field athlete with a strong arm
26 Pretentiously
avant-garde
28 Dweeb
29 Te ___
(“I love you,” in Spanish)
31 Yap from
a lap?
33 Jazz singer
Jones
34 Elvis hit that was the B-side of “Don’t Be Cruel”
35 Caterer’s
container
36 Smallest Canadian province, for short
39 Stop in
a desert
40 Once-popular
big box stores
41 Ocean creatures with nearly triple the neural wiring of humans
43 Rapper whose name sounds like a beverage
46 Thousand-dollar bill, slangily
47 Before surgery, informally
48 Writer/ podcaster Harris
50 Mountain goat
51 A good time
52 Be wide-open
53 Parts of the “Mona Lisa” that seem to follow you around