The New York Times

Edited by Will Shortz No. 0109

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 ___

1 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