NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

50 YEARS ON by Jason Mueller and Jeff Chen / Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Org. whose workers

can be a little frisky?

4 Meager

9 Charged

14 Picture framer’s aid

17 Bad things for astronaut suits to have

19 Part of a broadcast

feed

20 On the

21 Second-largest of the

Hawaiian Islands

22 “However,” in

textspeak

23 Name of a sea first

visited in 1969

25 Pot starter

26 World capital near the

60th parallel

27 What mattresses and

spirits may do

28 Signs of nervousness 29 Good name for a

fishmonger?

30 Gaming neophyte

31 Kind of diet

33 They don’t keep their thoughts to themselves

36 Two tablespoons

37 W.W. II zone: Abbr.

38 End of a rope

40 Sean who played

Rudy in “Rudy”

42 La-la lead-in

43 Certain seafood

delicacy

44 Attention

45 Not as one

49 Appropriately palindromic reply to “Madam, I’m Adam” 50 Someone who might engage in a hobby with some frequency?

51 Bit of media hoopla 53 Words of Jesus

55 “Great” birds

57 Hillary who climbed

Everest

59 The Notorious ____ (Supreme Court nickname)

60 Possible response to

“No, you’re not”

62 Skin-care brand

64 Classic place to hide

money

67 “Je t’____”

70 Suave competitor

71 Newsmaker of July

1969

72 Weeper of myth

73 Relating to the

kidneys

74 Santa ____, Calif.

75 Where I go “when my baby smiles at me,” in song

76 Bartender’s supply

77 Necessity for going

online, in brief

79 Passed

83 Loopy cursive letters 84 “There was no other

choice!”

87 Deactivate

88 Request for a cold

one

92 Bottom-dwelling fish

that lack fins

94 “____ NewsHour”

95 Wizards, but not

witches

96 Place to get a shot

97 Amenities at some

hotels

100 Understanding