

THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE FROM HELL



Composed by Karl M. Petruso



ACROSS DOWN



1 The _______ 1 Opposite of forty

5 Tributary of the Bug (var.) 2 Common Burkina Faso insect

10 See 34 Down 3 Part 3 of quote

14 See 10 Across 4 Atlantis to Xanadu dir.

15 Opposite of average 5 A 5-letter word

16 Hebrew month 6 ... of ______

17 Part 2 of quote 7 Hebrew month

19 An adjective 8 ... and ______

20 Madagascar roofing tool 9 Person who did not speak quote

21 See 23 Down 10 Cousin in Ulan Bator

22 Color I am thinking of 11 Appendix to quote

24 Color I will be thinking of 12 See 39 Across

for tomorrow's puzzle 13 Random string of four letters

26 John ______ 18 King ______ II

27 See 59 Across 23 See 44 Down

29 A noun (misspelled) 25 Synonym for 19 Across

30 Arlington to Springfield dir. 26 Antonym for 25 Down

33 Crater on Mars (abbrev.) 27 In ______

34 ... a ______ (Keats) 28 Medieval Uzbek horse bit

35 Article abroad 29 Hebrew month

36 For ______ 31 Theme of this puzzle

37 ... begat ______ (Book of Genesis) 32 Theme of a different puzzle

38 Yiddish for putz 34 See 10 Across

39 See 12 Down 37 Another person who did not speak quote

40 ______ rrështl (Albanian board game) 38 Assistant key grip, Forrest Gump

41 Its bigger than a molecule 40 Hebrew month

42 Airport abbreviation 41 What 26 Across was famous for

43 Popular Lithuanian female 44 See 21 Across

nickname 46 "... good ______" (Shakespeare)

44 Ancient Bactrian bronze coin 47 I'm gonna sock you in the ______,

denomination Will Shortz."

45 2 + 2, e.g. 48 Prefix suffix

47 With 5 Down, car part 49 Uh-oh (colloq.)

48 Speaker of quote 50 Hebrew month (var.)

50 Year Lucius Mummius Pulcher almost 52 Poetic contraction

remarried

51 Mars to Neptune dir. 53 Poetic expansion

54 Agua, in Acapulco 56 LP:CD::DVD: _____

55 Beginning of quote 57 Burma to Myanmar dir.

58 Bodkin (archaic)

59 See 27 Across

60 Random string of four letters (var.)

61 He batted .219 in 1953

62 A color I am not thinking of

63 ______ Jones