NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
No. 1104
ACROSS
1 Sources of wisdom
7 “Fear is ___. So are regrets”: Marilyn Monroe
13 Threaten
15 Slow-simmered stew of northwest Africa
16 Run-down
18 Island home of Odysseus
19 Acute ... or the opposite of acute
20 They’ve got tickets to rides
22 Appropriate word found scrambled in “pedantic”
23 To be overseas?
24 What charges produce
25 Minced oath
26 Touch
27 Spring winds?
28 Performances most likely to cause sweaty palms
29 One ponying up for a deal?
31 Yo-yos, in a way
32 “No biggie”
33 Tricks
34 ___ deux vins (tipsy: Fr.)
35 Part of a mic check
38 They may be loose or tight
39 Square meal?
40 City nickname that includes its state’s postal code
41 Paradise of the Beat Generation
42 When Macbeth says “Is this a dagger which I see before me ...?”
43 People
44 Type leaning to the right
46 Take some hits
48 Strip
49 It’s a bad look
50 Went down the drain, say
51 Value
DOWN
1 Squirm
2 Secret code?
3 Blackjack starter
4 Pluck
5 Lemon or orange
6 Nurse
7 Moves
8 They get under one’s skin, informally
9 “Not again!”
10 Member of a “grand” trio?
11 Canine relative
12 War historian’s tally
14 “Ahhhh, bliss!”
17 It was introduced at the Olympics in 1988
21 “We should get going”
24 Squares
25 Never-seen title character
27 Ride ’em, cowboy!
28 Title woman in a Beatles song
29 Winner of two consecutive Best Actor Oscars
30 Certain rocket engine
31 “Hansel and Gretel” setting
32 Like Goodwill goods
33 Live
35 Part of a disguise, maybe
36 Bronzes, say
37 Wallops
39 Kept in the loop, in a way
40 Line after “On a cold winter’s night that was so deep”?
42 Second
43 Snowmobile base
45 Italian pronoun that becomes a name by adding -gi
47 Some bank deposits