The New York Times Crossword
Ahswels below
ACROSS
1 Fair
5 Mary Lincoln’s maiden
name
9 Some drought-resistant plants
14 James of jazz
15 Leader in a kaffiyeh 16 Two-or four-seater,
maybe?
17 “Smile!”
19 Like tomes, typically 20 Address by a Sacramento N.B.A. player? 22 Padre’s hermana 23 Expansive septet 24 Make bubbly 28 Hibernation stations 29 Concern of the Citizens United decision, for short 32 Sharp-shooting Curry 33 Mass ___
34 Around 16 mg of niacin, e.g.
35 Game notes for a New
Orleans N.B.A. player? 38 Officiate, informally 39 ;) ;) ;)
40 “I give!”
41 Surgery sites, for short 42 Things that sometimes clash in orchestras?
43 Amounts at risk
44 Top ___
45 Variety show segment 46 Charlotte N.B.A. player in charge of recycling? 53 “Oof, that was bad” 54 Gutter attachment 55 Write an ode about,
perhaps
56 Wetlands denizen
57 TV show that launched more than 200 songs onto the Billboard Hot 100
58 Work of cartography 59 Tree house?
60 Appear
DOWN
1 Not be serious
2 Home of the Anasazi
State Park Museum 3 Ocular woe
4 Add (on)
5 ___-weenie
6 Rolex rival
7 Put-down 8 Impersonating, in a
way
9 Totally adorable 10 Grateful?
11 Trendy
12 Silicon Valley specialty, familiarly
13 Get to
18 Make an effort to get
swole
21 Corral
24 ___ Blaster (classic
arcade game)
25 Thin air
26 Some barriers to entry in the shipping business? 27 Candy Crush or Angry
Birds
28 Places for aces 29 Pierce slightly 30 Best-selling musical artist whose album titles represent ages 31 Sights along Paris’s
Champs-Élysées 33 Studied secondarily 36 Hybrid feline 37 Messenger molecule 43 Coarse-grained rock
that splits easily
44 Car company founded
in 2003
45 Writer Nin
46 Bit of typing by someone who’s all thumbs? 47 Recover
48 Flavorers in Italian
cookery
49 Dungeons & Dragons
and others, for short 50 4,100+ mile river that
drains 11 countries 51 One-on-one Olympic
event
52 Overflow (with) 53 “Up” vote
ACROSS
1 Calico’s call
5 Droop
8 May honorees 12 “Mamma Mia” group 13 Thanksgiving dessert 14 Ellipse
15 Pots and pans and
such
17 Ward of “Once and
Again”
18 Derisive looks 19 Know-it-all
21 Venus, to Serena 22 Guitarist Clapton 23 Have a bug
26 B’way show purchase
28 Computer symbols 31 Film genre
33 Guffaw
35 Type
36 Jukebox picks 38 Delaware Water — 40 Diane’s role in “The
Godfather”
Answers below 41 New newts 43 Estuary 45 Disqualify (oneself) 47 Capers
51 Sleep like —
52 Julia Child volume 54 Drifting ice
55 “For shame!” 56 Lawyer (Abbr.) 57 Seize
58 “Glee” character —
Sylvester
59 Use a stun gun
DOWN
1 Apple computers 2 Black, in verse 3 Bassoon’s kin 4 Comes to
5 Russian chess champion Boris
6 Melody
7 Gaggle members 8 Inlaid tile designs 9 Make mushy, as
pasta 10 Beer ingredient 11 Do in
16 Legal document 20 Hosp. scan
23 Busy insect
24 Chit
25 Restaurant kitchen
worker
27 Towboat
29 Big D.C. lobby 30 Pigs’ digs
32 Asylum seeker, perhaps
34 Bar singalong 37 Rds.
39 Flamingo’s hue 42 Factions
44 Facing the pitcher 45 Huck’s transport 46 Big name in scat 48 Greek vowel 49 Barracks beds 50 Terrier type 53 Buckeyes’ sch.