NY Times Puzzle No. 0902

ACROSS

1 No-brainer?

7 Seabird that can be tufted or horned

13 Words that might be followed by “Hear! Hear!”

14 Pepper with a

“delayed fuse”

15 Toy that’s not

really a toy?

16 Lost at strip poker

17 It has triangular

blades

18 Susceptible to

burning, in a way

19 Hot ___

20 Not needing to

work

23 Half a laugh

25 Herd : buffalo ::

bob : ___

26 Good name for a

gallery owner

30 Call from a server,

maybe

32 “Oversharing

alert!”

33 Flies like flies

34 Statement from someone you should probably respond to with skepticism

37 Fertile Crescent

feeder

38 Most common evening for “Dateline NBC” during its threedecade run: Abbr.

39 It has a

triangular blade

40 Like Staten Island ona

New York City subway map

41 Campus noob

43 Abbr. on a paper

tray

44 Oxford English Dictionary’s Word of the

Year in 2022, describing an unapologetically self-indulgent state

47 Get high

50

51

54

56 Legacy

competitor

57

58

59

60

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2

3

4

5

6 Bastille Day

saison

7 Eponymous German bacteriologist

8 Mantel piece

9 Cinematic

specification

10

11 Agnes, in

Argentina

12 Quick greetings

14

16

18 Gets in a lather

21 Some Greek

cheeses

22

Thinks of with buyer’s remorse, say

Acquisition in Monopoly

Snack crackers since 1921

Publicity, of a sort

“Sure … I guess”

Gives a leg up

Foraged delicacies

DOWN

Irradiates

Platte Valley people

They might go to extremes

One means of gaining access

Much of Tonga

Phony

Gets dirty

Top-selling concession item at San Francisco’s Oracle Park

Fuss (over)

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24 Replying to emails, scheduling meetings, etc., informally

27

28 “Just the check”

29 Perfume part

31 “I’d do it again!”

33

The world’s first Black-led republic

Shocked reaction

Quake

35 Nickname that can be a diminutive of a family member

36 Smooths, as silk

41 Alternative to a

tulip glass

42 Holiday cheer?

45 They may be held during the national anthem

46 Giving sort

47 One crossing the

line

48 Reds state

49

52 Shorthand for unnamed co-authors

53 Macaulay’s “___

of Ancient Rome”

55 Unwanted spot,

informally

56

Bubbly chocolate bar brand

Grand total