NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
1 Shoestrings
6 Cook in oil 9 Brewing giant originally based in Milwaukee 14 Roofing alternative to shingles 15 Whopper (but not the Burger King kind)
16 Hawaiian greeting 17 Extremely inexpensive 19 Things sometimes hidden behind paintings 20 Extinguish, as a fire 21 Cost of a bank transaction that’s not with one’s own bank
22 Confucian philosophy 24 Bottom-up, as a political movement 26 Runs away to marry 29 Like some winter highways
30 Perfect test grade 31 New Testament trio 33 Pop a fly?
37 “Now things are getting interesting” … or a hint to the first words of 17-, 24-, 45- and 57-Across
40 Gilbert of “Roseanne” and “The Conners” 41 Knots
42 Ship of 1492 43 High degree 44 Bub 45 Amateurish
51 GPS lines: Abbr. 52 Going from gig to gig
53 Texas city seen in many westerns 56 Hatred
57 Bars that kids go to?
60 Get a feeling 61 Iraq War danger, in brief
62 One of the Hawaiian Islands 63 Parts of a forest 64 “Here’s something interesting,” in brief
65 Got some Z’s
1 Timothy Leary’s drug
2 “The Greatest” in the ring
3 One who doesn’t travel to work alone 4 “___, Brute!” 5 Religious offshoot 6 ___-de-lis 7 Cowboy’s rope 8 Informal affirmative 9 Danish or cream puff
10 Avis competitor 11 Highly successful, in theaterspeak
12 One of 500 in a ream
13 Zaps with a police gun 18 Harleys, in slang 21 PC character set 22 Milk dispensers 23 Leader of the pack 25 Sounds of
resignation 27 Stage after larva 28 Bilingualism subj. 31 Sacred peak in
Greek myth: Abbr. 32 Had one’s fill 33 Equipment often transported on a car’s roof
34 Was a maverick 35 Chipped in at a
poker game
36 Old Russian royals 38 None of the above 39 Computer’s “brain,”
for short
43 Clouds of smoke 44 What the Titanic had a disastrous encounter with 45 Give a lift 46 Beneath 47 “Goosebumps”
writer R. L. ___ 48 One of four purchased for a Monopoly property 49 Sticky
50 We, on a candy
heart
54 Fraternal group 55 “You’re on!” 57 Alternative to Skippy or Peter Pan
58 Big mouth 59 Cambridge sch. for
budding engineers