NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Gold, frankincense and myrrh, famously

6 Fleet of foot

11 Bit of bunny slope gear

13 Pop music’s ___ Vanilli

14 #1 hit for the Troggs 16 Finalize, as comic art

17 Pandora released them

18 Pupil’s place 19 Speaks like Sylvester

20 Face cards, informally?

21 N.Y.C. subway line 22 Bed size

24 Bad outcome for a QB: Abbr. 25 Reacting to an awkward moment, perhaps

29 Jazz improvisations 32 Flashy accessories 33 Aperitif with black currant liqueur 34 Mother of Horus 35 Threshold

36 Pasta choice

37 & 38 Cocktail with lemon or lime 39 Center 40 Oppressive 42 Removable locks 43 What Gollum calls “my precious” 44 Number of suspects in Clue 45 J. Edgar Hoover’s org.

48 Parsley portion 51 J. Edgar Hoover used one: Abbr. 53 Formal letter opener

54 Source of the word “whiskey”

55 Close, as a community 57 Touch of color 58 Sounding like Big Ben

59 Many Punjabis 60 Quick cuts

1 Breathers? 2 Unaffiliated voters: Abbr.

3 See 14-Down

4 Item shot out of a cannon at an arena 5 Evade

6 Like the Cheshire cat

7 Entertaining, in a way

8 Sorts

9 Go gaga (over) 10 Spam holders

11 Not so hot 12 Reggae singer ___ Kamoze

14 With 3-Down, Nintendo exercise offering

15 Part of a guitar that also names something you can wear 21 Stand-___ 23 Instant 24 Possibilities 25 Static ___

26 “It’s a joke” 27 Petty criticisms 28 Moxie

29 Oil machinery 30 “Oh, really?” 31 Over, to Odette 32 “Show me your

worst!”

35 Russian

pancake

36 Start of some evasive maneuvering 38 Deliberate

discourtesies 39 Verb that’s also a Roman numeral

41 Otto who worked on the Manhattan Project

42 Word before reach

or reason 44 Venice’s Bridge

of ___

45 Original sauna

users

46 Water cooler? 47 Loyal follower? 48 Gathers dust 49 Toyota hybrids,

jocularly 50 Zamboni site 52 Actor Cage, to

friends

53 Pass on

56 “Didn’t need to

know that!”