The New York Times Crossword

No. 0804

ACROSS

1 ___ alphabet

5 Dream big

11 ___-Signal

14 Mystery writer?

15 Place to hide in hide-andseek

16 Donkey Kong, for one 17 Classic song that starts “I was working in the lab late one night” [2003, 1970] 19 Hwy.

20 Viking beverage

21 Popular New Orleans dessert 23 Start of the Depression

[1987, 2004]

27 ___ vera

28 Bequeaths

29 Works of Picasso y Goya 30 Gotham inits.

31 Small wind instrument 32 Gamblers’ calculations 33 Line at the top or bottom of a

website [1997, 2019] 36 Help up a slope

38 Popular depilatory

39 Busy body?

42 It was cool in the ’90s 43 Search blindly

45 Strives (to)

46 Commuter’s headache

[1998, 2000]

49 1986 #1 hit for Patti LaBelle

and Michael McDonald 50 Throne material on “Game of

Thrones”

51 Lovelace of early computing 52 Editing device suggested by 17-, 23-, 33- and 46Across?

57 Crossed

58 Michelle Obama or Jill Biden,

informally 59 Request accompanying

puppy dog eyes, maybe 60 ___ Lankan 61 Mac-versus-PC and others 62 Lead-in to sax

DOWN

1 “Full Metal Jacket” setting, in

brief

2 Surprise for a statistician 3 “Funky Cold Medina” rapper 4 In the bargain bin, say

5 Tennis feat

6 Nikon D3500, e.g.

7 Certain lap dog, informally 8 Allende who wrote “City of

the Beasts”

9 Goes back to square one 10 Moral code

11 Alma mater for Martha

Stewart and Joan Rivers 12 Hurdles for many honor

students, in brief 13 Something most babies do at

around six months

18 The Rams scored none of these in the ’19 Super Bowl, and the Chiefs none in ’21 22 Ex-seniors

23 Sickly-looking

24 Mattress size 25 Big break

26 58-Across

between Lou and Bess 31 Supporting

32 ___ Lady of Guadalupe 33 Often-frazzled comics

character

34 Rank below adm. 35 Seating section

36 What the N.B.A.’s SuperSonics became in 2008

37 Type of rice

39 Like some glasses

40 Highly respected

41 Help button

42 Some celebrity sporting events

43 Rampage

44 Dwindle

45 Birthplace of Homo sapiens 47 So-called “Godfather of the

Teamsters”

48 Be bedridden, say

53 Big Apple subway inits. 54 Opposite of norte

55 Email addenda, for short 56 Vegas hotel and casino that is the longtime host of the World Series of Poker