THE NYT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Like a Navy seal
11 Tall tale producer? 15 Colorful ornamental with a trunk
16 Very large, informally
17 One-stop shopping spot 18 Battleship guess
19 Advance look, commercially
20 Backing for a cartoonist
22 ___ Williams, Potsie player on “Happy Days”
24 ___-on-Thames (regatta site)
25 Little bits
27 Wet blanket?
29 Subject of the biography “Lightning in His Hand”
30 Girl’s name in which the last three letters are equivalent to the first?
31 Quality wool source
33 It’s an imposition
34 Acupuncturist’s supply
36 Feeling
38 “OMG, that’s enough!”
39 Came (from)
41 Hawkeye State city
42 John Wayne title role
44 Quick on the uptake
45 Washington Sq. Park squad
46 One not yet one, say
48 Something to live for
50 Primitive
52 Marcos of the Philippines
56 Minor flaw
57 Old-fashioned auto feature
59 Front money?
60 Obama’s first Homeland Security secretary 61 Supportive cries 62 Dark brown quartz sometimes sold as a gemstone
DOWN
1 One might be involved in a sting
2 Like la mer
3 Stick with it
4 High
5 Most TV Land programming
6 Paralyzes, in a way
7 Education’s ___ Tech
8 “What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta,” e.g.
9 Foreign term of address
10 Ones put on retainer?
11 “Not another bite for me!”
12 Imprinting tool
13 Like Alzheimer’s disease
14 Plot lines
21 Believe in
23 Frederick Forsyth thriller “The ___ File”
25 Four-for-four Super Bowl-winning QB
26 2.5%
28 Seeing right through
30 Thus
31 All the suspects in “The Usual Suspects”
32 ___ Land, 1954 Kirk Douglas sci-fi role
35 Currency in Freetown 37 Accept
40 Animato
43 Edmond ___, the Count of Monte Cristo
45 “Your call”
47 Mountain lakes
49 Lollapalooza
51 53rd “state quarter” locale
53 Capriole
54 “Two Years Before the Mast” author
55 Leaving nothing out
58 ___ Tower Gardens, National Historic Landmark in Florida