The New York Times Crossword Puzzle

NO. 0818 9/22/23

ACROSS

1 Jewell who played Jewel on “Deadwood” 5 Slip

10 Shade of blue 14 It may follow praying 15 Brings up 16 Flowers for mothers?

17 The cask of

amontillado, e.g. 19 Outspoken? 20 Expression of support while keeping one’s distance? 21 Golden Globe classification 22 ___ time 23 Fiver 25 “Little Birds” eroticist

26 A ways 28 Symbols thought to have supernatural power

31 “I need at least a little justification” 37 Home for retired circus workers, maybe 38 Opposite of playing it safe 39 Looks long and hard 40 Luke’s trainee in “Star Wars” 41 Mo. with two national holidays 44 Steam 45 Bulky Himalayan 47 Yolanda with four Grammys in gospel

49 Key part 55 Pasta that’s

often baked 56 Heavy stock 57 Fire

58 Kind of pie 59 Russian region 60 Log time

61 Holy person 62 Romantic

preference DOWN 1 Rubberneck 2 Certain royal 3 Home makeover,

informally 4 Under the most dire circumstances 5 Like some

accents

6 Highperformance Saab model 7 Brain ___

8 Ones who haven’t

signed

9 Night school subj. 10 “El ___ en los tiempos de cólera” (García Márquez title) 11 Holy book 12 Savoriness

13 Only character to appear in all of the Narnia chronicles

18 “I’m done with this conversation!” 21 Wipe

24 Canoe maker’s

bark

26 Done, informally 27 Tel ___

28 “It was fine,” e.g. 29 Fatuous

30 Your wurst side? 31 Miss at a country

dance

32 It may follow

praying 33 “Enigma Variations” composer 34 Name on the

Marquis?

35 Nora Ephron’s ironically titled “Wallflower at the ___”

36 Bill of science 41 Full of pizazz 42 Parting of the

Seine?

43 Like birth days 45 New Age musician with the platinum album “Tribute”

46 View from a high

pass

48 Word with square

or air

50 Empire that functioned without money 51 Work crew 52 Locale for country and folk music, familiarly 53 Bound

54 First name in

detective fiction 56 Old records, in

brief