The New York Times Coffee and Crosswords: Thirsty Thursday: 75 Tricky Thursday Puzzles from the New York Times

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Author: Will Shortz

ISBN-10: 0312608004

ISBN-13: 9780312608002

Category: Crossword Puzzles -> Difficulty -> Challenging

Sipping a cup of tea and enjoying an easy New York Times crossword puzzle is one of life's simple pleasures. This latest volume of our new "Coffee and Crosswords" series, Thirsty Thursday, collects all your favorite easy Thursday puzzles. Features: * Seventy five of the Times' quirky Thursday crosswords \ * Convenient trade paperback for easy transport\ * Edited by Will Shortz.

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Sipping a cup of tea and enjoying an easy New York Times crossword puzzle is one of life's simple pleasures. This latest volume of our new "Coffee and Crosswords" series, Thirsty Thursday, collects all your favorite easy Thursday puzzles.Features: * Seventy five of the Times' quirky Thursday crosswords * Convenient trade paperback for easy transport* Edited by Will Shortz.

The New York Times\ ACROSS\ 1 Having surmounted\ 5 Semicircular room\ 9 Poor box contents\ 13 Plea sure seeker\ 14 Respectable\ 15 Obtain\ 16 Ad icon since 1914\ 19 Acupressure technique\ 20 Tree sacred to Druids\ 22 Regular at Kelsey’s Bar, on TV\ 25 Crow’s nest?\ 28 Rebel yell\ 29 One may hold the mayo\ 32 Mend\ 33 "Hurry!"\ 34 It could easily go up\ 36 Candied side dish\ 37 Oswald Cobblepot’s nom de crime\ 38 Boxer’s hand\ 41 Prig\ 43 Backsplash component\ 44 "The Female Eunuch" author\ 46 Bach’s "Partita No. 6 ___ Minor"\ 47 Cézanne colleague\ 48 Recipient of a 1937 wooden Oscar\ 50 Contains\ 51 ___ Paradise, protagonist of "On the Road"\ 52 Impatient\ 56 What 16-and 37-Across and 11-and 24-Down were all known to do\ 62 Antler feature\ 63 Roast setting\ 64 Big ___ Conference\ 65 Reason to say "Now what do we do?"\ 66 Being, to Brutus\ 67 First batter to hit a home run against every Major League Baseball team\ DOWN\ 1 Half a huge cost?\ 2 Unduly\ 3 Lord’s Prayer start\ 4 Place to pick up a puppy\ 5 Musical with the song "Easy Street"\ 6 Arno city\ 7 Ignore the lyrics?\ 8 Sniggler’s take\ 9 Bol. Neighbor\ 10 Ring around the collar?\ 11 Caretaker for the Banks house hold\ 12 Ill will\ 17 Allegheny + Monongahela\ 18 Famous nine-year-old king\ 21 Itty-bitty\ 22 Vacationing\ 23 Tabula description\ 24 Churchill pre decessor\ 26 Have coming\ 27 Fraternity chapter\ 29 Bottled spirit\ 30 Element whose name roughly means "lazy"\ 31 Do something else with\ 34 Charge\ 35 Undo a lead\ 37 Untarnished\ 39 Out of harm’s way\ 40 Moistens\ 42 Half a huge cost?\ 43 Dishevels\ 44Literary monogram\ 45 Isn’t stoic\ 47 Grimace\ 49 Passing obstruction?\ 50 Silver, for one\ 53 Art class figure\ 54 Opening day?\ 55 Everglades denizen\ 57 Genetics abbr.\ 58 ___ U.S. Pat. Off.\ 59 Seven-faced doctor of film\ 60 Ninny\ 61 RR bldg.\ by Henry Hook\ ACROSS\ 1 Country store?\ 6 Wrench (from)\ 10 Jeanne ___\ 14 Father, Son and Holy Ghost\ 15 Feminine suffix\ 16 Even, to Yves\ 17 Constructing things\ 19 Don’t\ 20 Couples cruise vessel?\ 21 50’s two-seaters\ 23 Custom\ 25 Some flames\ 30 Piccadilly Circus statue\ 31 Annoyance, in British slang\ 32 Streamlined\ 34 Cheer start\ 37 Theme of this puzzle, as hinted at by 17-, 23-, 45-and 59-Across\ 40 Hard-rock filler\ 41 Sikorsky and Stravinsky\ 42 Citizen of Shiraz\ 43 Hosiery hue\ 44 Stripped\ 45 1962 #1 hit by the Shirelles\ 51 Stands ready for\ 52 It’s made up of columns\ 58 Part of a camp schedule\ 59 Means of remote monitoring\ 61 Hang ___\ 62 ". . . ___ saw Elba"\ 63 Slanted\ 64 Org.\ 65 Nature\ 66 With 46-Down, Ohio State’s ___ Memorial Stadium\ DOWN\ 1 Mailing label abbr.\ 2 String ___\ 3 Director Wertmuller\ 4 Old cross\ 5 Dates\ 6 Prefix with fluoride\ 7 Edible mushroom\ 8 In what ever quantity\ 9 Museum specialist\ 10 Ranch wear\ 11 Outdoor market\ 12 Corp. bud get item\ 13 Like some calls\ 18 Snitch\ 22 Burglarized\ 24 Oglers’ looks\ 25 Californian’s vacation destination, maybe\ 26 Sources of hurt feelings\ 27 Turkish title\ 28 Spigot site\ 29 Lobby\ 32 Rub, rub, rub\ 33 Choreographer Lubovitch\ 34 Get into some hot water?\ 35 Actress Skye\ 36 Start of many an accident\ 38 Departures\ 39 Burlesque show wear\ 43 Subject of a 1940 biopic starring Spencer Tracy\ 45 It was split into two parts by the 1899 Treaty of Berlin\ 46 See 66-Across\ 47 Stays\ 48 Charles ___, "Gaslight" star, 1944\ 49 Footnote abbr.\ 50 House call?\ 53 Key of Pachelbel’s Canon: Abbr.\ 54 Townshend of the Who\ 55 Actress Meyers and others\ 56 Square dance partners\ 57 City near Padua\ 60 Anti anti\ by Elizabeth C. Gorski\ ACROSS\ 1 Learns\ 8 1958 sci-fi classic starring Steve McQueen\ 15 Jose Cuervo, for one\ 16 ___\ 17 Director Ivan\ 18 Most monstrous\ 19 Taylor, Wilson or Harding\ 20 Rear-___\ 22 Book in the Book of Mormon\ 23 "That’s all I ___"\ 24 Rice dish\ 27 Place for a house plant\ 30 Column of boxes on a questionnaire\ 31 Defendants, legally\ 34 Prize\ 37 ___\ 39 Supporters of the arts\ 40 Plague\ 41 Brute\ 42 ___\ 43 Altoids holder\ 44 Saint of dancers\ 46 Once, in old times\ 47 Letters before gimels\ 48 "The Guiding Light" airer\ 50 Very\ 53 Jazz’s Peterson\ 55 It may be said while crossing the fingers\ 58 1984 film with the tagline "It’s 4 a.m., do you know where your car is?"\ 61 A deadly sin\ 63 Of tremendous fervor\ 64 ___\ 65 Holiday meals\ 66 Bun toppers\ DOWN\ 1 Pivoting razor\ 2 Existed\ 3 1/64 of a checkerboard, maybe: Abbr.\ 4 So last year\ 5 Country singer with the 1997 triple platinum hit "How Do I Live"\ 6 Fill in the ___ (a hint to this puzzle’s theme)\ 7 Ocean liner?\ 8 "Oy, vey!" cause\ 9 Show of affection\ 10 Film developing order: Abbr.\ 11 Give a rundown\ 12 It may be on a property\ 13 Bone: It.\ 14 Red and black, perhaps\ 21 Flexible blade\ 23 Startle\ 25 Classic camera\ 26 Org.\ 27 Parade honoree, briefly\ 28 Tabriz native\ 29 Admit\ 30 ’04, ’08 and others\ 31 Not so well done\ 32 Hwy. planners\ 33 Explanatory phrase\ 35 Dry white\ 36 Dark\ 38 St. ___ (common hospital name)\ 40 Class of ’08 in ’08, e.g.\ 42 Ornery sort\ 45 Risqué beachwear\ 47 Sauce\ 48 Venae ___ (major blood vessels)\ 49 Some fasteners\ 50 The sun, moon and stars\ 51 Toolbar heading\ 52 Boom\ 54 Famous Mama\ 55 What each completed pair of theme answers in this puzzle is\ 56 Frozen drink brand\ 57 Former first lady\ 59 "O patria ___" ("Aida" aria)\ 60 "So . . . ?"\ 62 Dietary std.\ by Matt Ginsberg\ ACROSS\ 1 Locks horns (with)\ 6 Not Rx\ 9 Phil who sang "Draft Dodger Rag"\ 13 *Party game\ 15 *1961 chart-topper for Ray Charles\ 17 Stems (from)\ 18 How trapeze artists perform\ 19 *Vie for votes\ 21 Announcement to passengers, for short\ 22 Taint\ 23 Rand who asked "Who is John Galt?"\ 24 Dolly, for one\ 27 You, to you, or me, to me\ 29 Baseball stat.\ 31 Where Wounded Knee is: Abbr.\ 32 Mrs. Dick Cheney\ 35 "Mother of all rivers"\ 37 *Get off to a quick start\ 40 Corrida chant\ 41 Hair net\ 42 Hockey great Jaromir\ 43 Swell place?\ 44 Exclusive\ 48 Star Wars, briefly\ 49 Fictional C.I.A. unit on "Alias"\ 51 Calif. setting\ 54 Escape ___\ 55 *Get it exactly\ 59 Vein locale\ 61 Classic Studebaker whose name means "forward" in Italian\ 62 *Shoot perfectly\ 63 Words missing from the answers to the eight starred clues\ 64 The usual amts.\ 65 Served, as time\ 66 Gym bag items\ DOWN\ 1 Gets all ditzy\ 2 Capt. Sparrow, e.g.\ 3 Zooid\ 4 Laryngitis symptom\ 5 Tick off\ 6 Algerian port in "The Plague"\ 7 Morgue ID<\