The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Jewell who played Jewel on
“Deadwood”
5 Slip
10 Shade of blue
14 It may follow praying
15 Brings up
16 Flowers for mothers?
17 The cask of amontillado, e.g. 19 Outspoken?
20 Expression of support while
keeping one’s distance? 21 Golden Globe classification 22 ___ time
23 Fiver
25 “Little Birds” eroticist
26 A ways
28 Symbols thought to have
supernatural power
31 “I need at least a little
justification”
37 Home for retired circus
workers, maybe
38 Opposite of playing it safe 39 Looks long and hard
40 Luke’s trainee in “Star Wars” 41 Mo. with two national
holidays
44 Steam
45 Bulky Himalayan
47 Yolanda with four Grammys in
gospel
49 Key part
55 Pasta that’s often baked 56 Heavy stock
57 Fire
58 Kind of pie
59 Russian region 60 Log time
61 Holy person 62 Romantic preference
DOWN
1 Rubberneck
2 Certain royal
3 Home makeover, informally 4 Under the most dire
circumstances
5 Like some accents 6 High-performance Saab
model
7 Brain ___
8 Ones who haven’t signed 9 Night school subj.
10 “El ___ en los tiempos de
cólera” (García Márquez title) 11 Holy book
12 Savoriness
13 Only character to appear in
all of the Narnia chronicles 18 “I’m done with this
conversation!”
21 Wipe
24 Canoe maker’s bark
26 Done, informally 27 Tel ___
28 “It was fine,” e.g.
29 Fatuous
30 Your wurst side?
31 Miss at a country dance 32 It may follow praying 33 “Enigma Variations”
composer
34 Name on the Marquis? 35 Nora Ephron’s ironically titled
“Wallflower at the ___”
36 Bill of science
41 Full of pizazz
42 Parting of the Seine?
43 Like birth days
45 New Age musician with the
platinum album “Tribute” 46 View from a high pass 48 Word with square or air 50 Empire that functioned
without money
51 Work crew
52 Locale for country and folk
music, familiarly
53 Bound
54 First name in detective fiction 56 Old records, in brief