NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Beginner, in lingo 5 Beaten via a referee’s decision, for short
9 Menial position 14 Words sung twice before “A pirate’s life for me” 15 Pint-size
16 Where the terminal dash in “Home Alone” takes place 17 Organized workers 19 Mythical lion’s home
20 Apt name for a worrier
21 One driving kids to a rink, say
23 “Roger that” 26 Sticking points? 27 Hindi for “reign” 28 Honor student’s pride, for short 29 Put up with 30 Accustoms (to) 32 Like planes and flags
33 Kind of lily
34 Fuel for a mustang?
35 Lucky hit for a Pingpong player 39 Non-starters 42 Successfully study 44 Impostor syndrome feeling
45 The Heat, on scoreboards 46 Catch
47 Prefix with sexual
48 Jailers … or a hint to “unlocking” four answers in this puzzle 50 Vie to get
52 Sound of a mouse pointer?
53 Skirt
54 She played Billie Jean King in 2017’s “Battle of the Sexes”
58 Formal decrees 59 “___ Creator Omnium” (ancient hymn)
60 Biblical son of Seth 61 Raring to go 62 Francis Drake and Ernest Shackleton, for two 63 Community served by Lambda Legal, in brief
DOWN 1
Sch. with the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
2 Seemingly for-ev-er 3 Moonshine
container
4 Plunder
5 “You shoulda kept
that to yourself” 6 Stuffed Jewish
dish
7 How some ballet is
performed
8 ___ golf
9 Jordan Peele’s production company, named for a classic horror short story 10 Natives of the Great
Plains
11 Like some signals and traffic 12 Their name has the “re” of “cream” and the two o’s from “chocolate”
13 Big smile
18 “Psst!” alternative 22 Certain high-fat, low-carb diet, informally 23 Treasures buried in
the hills
24 Bob ___, co-creator
of Batman 25 Photo ___ 29 Calculating 31 Purchases for a
high-tech hobby 32 Peeps, so to speak 34 Solution to a bad
hair day, maybe 36 1981 video game that featured the first appearance of Mario
37 Age, in a way 38 Moves out to sea 40 Thanksgiving 41 Gen-z style with emo and anime influences
42 Go public with 43 Bugaboos
44 Boil down 45 Soothing sound 47 “___ On Up” (“The
Jeffersons” theme) 48 Marisa of “My
Cousin Vinny” 49 ___ One (vodka
brand)
50 Actress ___ Pinkett
Smith 51 Gangbusters 55 Word with bad or
smart
56 Head, slangily
57 The “e” of i.e.