Antelope Valley Press

NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

No. 0420

Edited by Will Shortz PUZZLE BY JOSEPH GREENBAUM

ACROSS

1 Congratulatory

gestures

6 Div. of the Treasury

Department 9 “Murder Mystery” or “Roaring ’20s,” for a party

14 “Todo Sobre

Mi ___” (1999 Almodóvar film) 15 Stick on a rack 16 Like some legs and

mustaches

17 Aptly named

Olympic sprinter

19 Epic poem written in

dactylic hexameter 20 It’s multifaceted 21 Rudely arrogant 22 “___ no sin to cheat the devil”: Daniel Defoe

23 The Cowardly Lion,

back in Kansas 24 Aptly named six-time All-Star first baseman

30 Bread with a

palindromic name 31 Cry for assistance 32 Hold up

34 Actor Elgort of

“Baby Driver” 36 “___ queen!” 37 Mist a spot? 39 Animal that symbolizes good fortune in Chinese culture 40 Mushrooms found

in ramen

43 Shake, as a tail 44 Aptly named tennis

great

47 Behind, in England 48 Football carriers:

Abbr. 49 Listen to gossip,

in slang

52 What driver’s

licenses serve as 57 Writer Nin 58 Aptly named NBA MVP, in a manner of speaking

59 Period of work 60 Plastic ___ Band 61 “Later”

62 Album makeup 63 Gives the nod 64 Legally prohibit

DOWN

1 Self-satisfied 2 Use a beam on, as for cutting 3 Apple consumer with an unhappy story to tell?

4 Mint

5 Submitted

6 Tiny floppy disk,

for “Save”

7 Reign

8 Decided

9 Puts out light,

as a star

10 Angelic, in a way 11 ___ strategy

12 Most substantial part 13 Small vortex 18 Painter of “The Garden of Earthly Delights”

21 “Be as you wish to

___”: Socrates 23 Shuts up

24 Bygone airline with a logo nicknamed the “Blue Meatball” 25 One who may use the pronoun “I and I” (meaning God-in-me) 26 Children’s character who says “It’s not much of a tail, but I’m sort of attached to it” 27 Unreliable sort 28 Statistical calculation 29 Event for a Comedy

Central special 30 Capture

33 “Later”

35 They allow you to

kick back and relax 38 Unnamed guests 41 Org. behind the

Artemis program 42 New England

seafood staple 45 Five stars, maybe 46 More than right 49 Give attitude 50 Digging

51 Bread: Fr.

52 Pop star whose name is stylized with an exclamation point in place of its second letter 53 Insurance grps. 54 “O.G. Original

Gangster” rapper 55 Word before “... wanna go home,” in calypso

56 Instant, as a

decision

58 When doubled,

excessive

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