Antelope Valley Press

NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Cover story

6 How many

packages are sent 11 Kings and queens,

e.g.

12 Something that maybe you shouldn’t hold 13 Discreet look? 15 Transport in the film “Roman Holiday” 16 Something plaited 17 It’s 328 feet in an

Olympic-size pool 18 Gaelic tongue 19 Smart ___

20 What musicians pluck on an mbira

21 Trail mix bit

22 One who collects

just for kicks? 25 Not completely

worthless 27 Wayne ___ 28 Sources of psilocybin, informally

30 Shell filling

station?

34 Nordic noir author

Larsson

36 Two-bit

37 Green cappuccino alternative 41 Question from a friendly interviewer 42 Calls someone by the wrong name, say

43 Word with snake

or four

44 Unite 45 One end of

Suez? 46 Aboveboard 48 ___ Hunt, Tom Cruise’s role in “Mission: Impossible” 49 One who makes

videos, e.g. 52 Country singer

Jason 53 Workplace for a

roughneck 54 Sweater over a

turtleneck, say 55 One side of a ’90s boy band rivalry

DOWN

1 “Save Me” singer

Mann

2 ___ climbing (discipline that debuted at the 2020 Olympics) 3 “Ugh!”

4 Sort of creature symbolizing rebirth in ancient Egypt 5 Emphatic confirmation about oneself

6 Wireless support

providers, at times 7 ___ it up

8 One of two penguin species endemic to Antarctica

9 Lizard with a third

eye

10 Shilled for

11 Miley Cyrus or

Hannah Montana 12 Some sports VIPs 13 “Whenever works” 14 Hardly touch, as

one’s food

15 What QR codes

might pull up 19 Cause of fatigue 20 Contraction, for

one 22 Animal identified by

its number of toes 23 Passes

24 La ___-Posay

(skin-care brand) 26 They’re good for

poaching

29 Choose ... or

choice

31 One unlikely to

make a pass 32 Electrically neutral,

in chemistry 33 One-named singer with the 1997 hit “Show Me Love” 35 Princess Diana or

Diana Ross

37 Spirit of Oaxaca 38 Space between

leaf veins

39 In

40 Metaphor for fitting items into a moving van 44 Creepy story? 46 Cordelia’s father 47 Road trip stopover 48 Take in

50 Place for a graphic

image

51 Ron who played

Tarzan

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