The New York Times
ACROSS
1 Part of some Italian church names
5 Rights advocacy
org.
9 “The food of love,”
per Shakespeare
14 Territory reached along the Oregon Trail
15 Pirate’s swill
16 Feeling the need
to pace, say
17 Actress who portrayed Scarlett O’Hara and Blanche DuBois
19 Spring zodiac
symbol
20 Cocktails with brandy and crème de menthe
21 Ape
22 Doomed to fail, for
short
23 Co-Nobelist of
1978
24 Awards that only one college athlete has ever won twice
29 Some stock in the
exotic pet trade
31 Cow, often
32 Japan’s _ _ _
Castle
33 K-O connector
34 Ones getting the
last word in
36 Spot for a hymnbook 37 Country west of Zambia: Abbr. 38 Katey who played
TV’s Peg Bundy
39 Something that a ram and a Ram have in common
40 Atkins, for one
44 Tackle box
assortment
45 The “O” of 18Down
46 Said nasty things
about
48 “We appreciate
the contribution”
53 Shouts of
accomplishment
54 Complete
reversals
55 Church chorus?
56 Really cool, in
dated slang
57 Black-and-white
danger
58 “Ol’ Man River” singer, traditionally
59 Jeremiad
60 Take a ___
DOWN
1 Expeditions, e.g.
2 Coming to blows,
say
3 Indigenous race in the “Avatar” movies
4 What Columbus thought he’d reached in 1492
5 Radiant
6 Old-fashioned
news source
7 Records
8 “Gross!” 9 Charger dodgers
10 Open on
Christmas, say
11 What a provocateur aims to do
12 “Money ___
object”
13 Concern for a
dermatologist
18 World Vision and
others, for short
21 Utensil for peeling
23 Ratfink 24 Soars near the
shore, maybe
25 Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short, in a
1986 comedy
26 Away from
27 Source of down
28 Scattered, as seed
29 Uninspiring
30 Prefix with
directional
34 Hot shot? 35 Challenged 39 Cheery refrains from the Seven Dwarfs 41 Big-game hunting targets in the classic short story “The Most Dangerous Game” 42 Most prying 43 Aerodynamic resistance 46 Take a ___ 47 Holy title in Tibet 48 Early Quechua speaker 49 What “T” stands for in video game ratings 50 Peut-___ (French “maybe”) 51 High-end camera brand 52 Stressor for some H.S. sophomores 54 Dip stick?