NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Maternity option involving a pool 11 Imposture

15 “Not pulling my

leg?”

16 Scour

17 Modern young person vis-à-vis video games and smartphones 18 Seton who wrote

“Dragonwyck” 19 Egyptian pyramid,

e.g.

20 To-dos

21 Gym count 22 Baldwin sometimes

seen on stage 24 Trunk

26 Day of a hunt 29 Followers

32 Pliant

33 It might start as a

shadow

34 Start of many a “Jeopardy!” response

35 Divine messenger 36 With 39-Across, 1970s-’80s fashion icon

37 Farm delivery 38 “That is ___”

39 See 36-Across 40 Author who wouldn’t let bygones be bygones?

41 Quartz, e.g. 43 Ingredient in V8

juice 44 Sci-fi star who hosted the documentary series “In Search of …” 45 Something scratched 46 Blackbird 47 Washington State’s ___ Island … or some things seen off its shore 50 Appropriates inappropriately? 54 University in Athens

55 Corn or rice 57 Dishevel

58 Shared delusion, from the French 59 Help badly

60 Good bet

1 Biblical verb

2 With the bow, in music

3 Bring to ___ 4 Removers of some irritants

5 Tiny spoonful, of a sort

6 Hardly a swinger 7 Man’s name that comes from the Hebrew for “laughter”

8 Some throws 9 Peregrination 10 Part of some gender studies 11 Like Al Capone’s face 12 Fair pay 13 “Weekend Update” co-host for four seasons

14 Grads who’ve demonstrated firm knowledge?

23 One side of a ship 25 Hackneyed

26 ___ Canetti, 1981

Literature Nobelist 27 Seattle, to Alaska 28 Classic poem with the lines “Did you want to see me broken? / Bowed head and lowered eyes?”

29 Soaring real

estate? 30 Sleepers, e.g. 31 Pushover

33 Hit hard

36 Semis are found in

them

37 Boulder locale 39 Prefix with -logical 40 Std.

42 “Start from the

beginning” 43 Pamper

45 Bottom 46 Attraction in

midtown N.Y.C. 48 Latitude

49 Pop, maybe

51 Sign with

the times

52 Risqué

53 Risqué, say 56 Poofy bit of

headgear