NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Spreads concern? 5 God who rides the eight-legged horse Sleipnir
9 Tube feature, with “the”
12 Illegal product that’s still made? 14 Write some letters 16 “Seems like a bad idea …”
17 Baked, in Italian 18 Word with bubble or high
19 Contacts data: Abbr.
20 Brand of ranch dressing? 22 Obsolescent kind of drive
24 Finish with
25 Far from home, say 28 Author who wrote “Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance” 30 Thin
31 May to November, in Central America 34 Checkout choices 35 Need to pay
36 QB rushers, collectively
37 Does a better job than at making points
39 Gives up
40 Clouds
41 Light touch 42 Moves a little
43 ___ Day of Visibility (March 31 observance) 45 Piece of the pie 47 Put on
48 ___ Coleman, principal on “Abbott Elementary” 51 Protagonist in a long-running Phyllis Reynolds Naylor book series 52 Person who might sweep a board game off a table 55 About 20 million
people in India 56 Close associates to
be wary of 57 Flattering lines 58 Growth that may be treated with salicylic acid
59 Be wide open
DOWN
1 Cut
2 One pill, perhaps
3 World capital whose Museum of Islamic Art was designed by I.M. Pei
4 ___ Balls 5 “Goodness …” 6 Claim in a squabble
7 Lodge
8 N.B.A. team originally based in New Jersey 9 Seeks shelter
10 ___ B. Parker, Democratic candidate for president in 1904 11 Blueprint
Subject: EVIL WORDS
Each answer contains “evil.” (e.g., The ruler of hell. Answer: Devil.)
FRESHMAN LEVEL
1. The capital city of bullfighting in Spain.
Answer________
2. Someone who does dangerous things for enjoyment and does not worry about the risk. Answer________
3. A large city in North Carolina. Answer________
GRADUATE LEVEL
4. To hate and criticize someone very much. 13 Feeling of dread before the start of the workweek, in slang
14 Source of a burning
odor?
15 Blunt salespeople 21 Model Holliday 22 Go into one’s
“phone voice,” say 23 Who said “Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before”
25 “___ and Janis”
(comic strip) 26 Suitor
27 Form of protest for
tenants
29 Great Basin people 31 Creepy-crawly 32 Singles
33 “Queer Eye” co-star
Jonathan Van ___ 38 Approximately 41 Having rhythm 42 Cube, e.g.
44 Like AB- vis-à-vis
other blood types 45 El ___
46 Office warning
letters
48 Birthplace of the world’s major religions 49 Second-incommand, informally
50 Bum
53 Italian time unit 54 [!!!]
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.
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.
Answer________
5. Stage entertainment offering a variety of short acts. Answer________
6. His novels include “On the Beach” and “A Town Like Alice.” Answer________
PH.D. LEVEL
7. Name of cities in Arkansas, Kansas and Michigan. Answer________
8. To torment mercilessly; plague. Answer________
9. An insect that eats plants and can destroy crops such as cotton. Answer________