The New York Times Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1 Crooked, as a painting on the wall
6 Nine-digit ID 9 How revenge (or pizza for breakfast) is best served
13 Steeple
14 Noshed 15 Corporate rule or
regulation 16 Concept that can’t be criticized or questioned, metaphorically 18 Tennis’s Agassi 19 Torah holders 20 Bigeye or yellowfin tuna, at a sushi bar
21 Feel great sorrow 22 Shout made with
a fist pump 23 Seafood often
served with picks 25 Dab, as with a
paper towel 27 Chicago trains 28 Not showy 30 Language spoken
in Bangkok 32 Ballet dancer’s
knee bend 36 Pre-employment
investigation 39 “A guy walks into a bar …” may start one 40 Caesar’s words to
Brutus
41 Music Mann? 42 Shoofly ___ 43 Norway’s biggest
city
44 Cocktail named for two iconic beverage brands 50 Catch forty winks 53 Changes, as a
hemline 54 22-Across, in
French 55 Regarding 56 Latin for “in
itself”
57 Behaved in a laidback way 59 Connections for
car wheels 60 Author Edgar
Allan ___
61 In an unusual
way
62 Army’s football
rival
63 Mr. Potato Head
piece 64 Sell illegally, as tickets
DOWN
1 Test for purity 2 What a diagonal line represents on a bowling scoresheet 3 Relaxes 4 Commits a
fumble
5 Small, to a Scot 6 Borat creator ___
Baron Cohen 7 Showing no
emotion
8 Either “N” in NY,
NY
9 Jaded doubter 10 More ancient 11 Stage in a butterfly’s development 12 Socially inept
sort
15 Poets of yore 17 It’s tossed toward
a bull’s-eye 21 Frozen
23 Viet ___ (armed force of the 1960s-’70s) 24 Reeves of the
“Matrix” films 26 Thumbs-up on
Facebook 28 Gooey lunchbox sandwich, informally 29 Language spoken
in Vientiane 30 Schlepped 31 Primitive
dwelling
32 TV’s Dr. ___ 33 San Pellegrino
offering 34 “Rocks” that
clink in a drink 35 ___ out a living 37 Rider’s handful 38 Assignment for a
lawyer 42 Removes skin
from
43 “The Grapes of
Wrath” figure 44 Mount Fuji’s
locale
45 Amazon
“assistant”
46 PC command to
paste
47 Ken who wrote “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
48 Hot drink with
marshmallows 49 Word before
space or limits 51 Coral islet chain 52 Coral reef
producer 55 “Highway to Hell” rock group … or a hint to electrical switches found in 16-, 23-, 36-, 44and 57-Across 57 Gorilla, e.g. 58 Uno + uno