NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 “Sick!”
7 Badger
13 Where many video calls are taken 15 Sails event?
16 ebay feature
18 Pair for each state 19 Boxing ringers 20 Creature prized for its long legs 30 Some basketball venues … or players 31 “Let’s Make a Deal” option
32 Film character who debuted in “Diary of a Mad Black Woman” (2005) 33 Not stop with one or two, say 34 Contents of a list, maybe
37 Used a lever on 39 Backstabber 41 Philanthropist George
42 Magic 8 Ball response
52 Draft announcement? 53 Instruments made from gourds 54 Plant pores 55 Furtive
56 Doesn’t let a peep out of
Take this Super Quiz to a Ph. D. Score. 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph. D. Level.
Subject: HOBBIES
What is the hobby? (e.g., Bibliophily.
Answer: Book collecting.)
FRESHMAN LEVEL
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GRADUATE LEVEL
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1 Setting in a Spike Lee film
2 Midwest tribe 3 Something that people like to see break
4 Old settings for tragedies
5 Jaunty
6 Subject of the Netflix series “Narcos”
7 “Over my dead body!”
8 8+, for Yahtzee 9 Rank
10 Flour used in Indian cuisine
11 Editor’s note 12 Early 2000s outbreak
14 Some complainers, in modern lingo 15 D.M.V. issuance 17 Epitome of smoothness 20 Tops
21 Pick up
22 ___ Day, winner of a best actress Golden Globe for “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” 23 All sizzle and no ___ 24 “The Family Circus” cartoonist 25 Risk it all, say 26 Announcer of yore 27 Wrestler Rousey 28 Breed of cattle 29 Road Runner’s
sounds
35 L.C.D. component 36 Hair nets
37 They’re smart
these days
38 “... for anger ___ in the bosom of fools”: Ecclesiastes 40 Newspaper
nickname
42 Video game series with “Spa Day” and “Jungle Adventure” expansion packs, with “The” 43 Volunteer’s
response 44 Richard of
Hollywood 45 Sports org. headquartered in Indianapolis 46 Darn it!
47 Slacks, informally 48 ___ law
49 “Sure thing” 50 One-named designer born Romain de Tirtoff 51 Large amounts
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The Cryptoquip is a substitution cipher in which one letter stands for another. If you think that X equals O, it will equal O throughout the puzzle. Single letters, short words and words using an apostrophe give you clues to locating vowels.
Fill all the empty squares, using numbers 1 to 9, so the sum of each horizontal block equals the number to its left, and the sum of each vertical block equals the number on its top. No number may be used in the same block more than once.