NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Enlivens
7 Salutes with
flutes?
13 Tried really
hard
14 “Leading us
off ...”
15 WNBA Allstar Alyssa 16 Crushed-ice dessert with a reduplicative name
17 “___ been
wondering ...” 18 Suffix for a long fundraiser
20 La Brea
substance
21 Three-___
sloth
22 Study of insects, for short
24 Item that might be left on a hotel pillow
25 One-named “Queen of All Media”
27 Counterpart
of sow
28 Scores 100 on 29 Its capital is
Tripoli
30 Shellfish that may be served cooked or raw 32 Curd-based
drink
33 Aviate
34 Rosters
38 Black-andwhite breakfast cereal
40 Language in which “hello” is “kia ora”
41 “___ está
usted?”
44 Black-andwhite whale 45 “No idea”
gesture
46 Country that borders Yemen
47 “The Color Purple” character ___ Avery
48 Hartford’s
state: Abbr. 49 Went unused 50 “Yeah, that didn’t escape my notice” 52 Curved path 53 “Ow!”
57 Pre-cable TV
appurtenance 60 Establishment that serves “purr”-over coffee?
61 “Living Single” creator ___ Lee Bowser 62 Not being manually operated 63 Agree to something
DOWN 1 Winter clock setting in Calif.
2 Addis Ababa’s land
3 “A closed mouth doesn’t get fed” and others
4 Not too long
from now
5 Campus setting in the story collection “My Monticello,” in brief
6 Nuisance
7 Up to,
informally
8 Spanish for
“gold”
9 ___
Wednesday 10 Cause of
some cling
11 New Orleans
university
12 Cricket and squash, for two
14 Giant narrative that may be about giants (and elves as well) 16 Tree whose pods contain a sweettasting pulp 19 Luke Cage’s title in his first comics appearance 21 Turnpike
payment
23 Choose
24 Chanteuse with charttopping hits found at the tops of 4-, 14-, 16- and 19-Down
26 Eyebrows
and beards 31 Stately trees 35 Delta Sigma Theta, for one
36 Shorten
37 Exit or
Yield 39 Dawn
goddess
41 Rival of
Sam’s Club 42 Resident of Nebraska’s largest city 43 Hakuna ___ (Swahili phrase meaning “no problems”) 51 Methods
54 Fort Worth sch. whose mascot is Superfrog 55 All ___ and
no cattle
56 Mysterious
sky sighting 58 “Deliver Us From ___” (2003 rom-com) 59 Plural article
in French