The New York Times crossword puzzle

No. 0618

Across

1 Bill Bryson book subtitled “Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail”

16 Give a scolding 17 Show whose logo replaces an “o” with a diamond ring 18 Actress

Rowlands 19 Look after 20 Head for a cow,

horse or lion? 21 Book often stored horizontally 23 Put a strain on 24 Short jazz riff 25 Johnny with 10 World Series of Poker bracelets 26 Reading area 27 Spoils 29 Mother of the four winds, in myth

30 Cut off the back 32 High-risk

game

37 Many national

anthems 38 “Errare

humanum ___” 39 “Whatever

works” 42 Indifferent

remark 43 Hurdle for a

future atty. 44 Something you’re not likely to fork out? 45 Seventh word of the Gettysburg Address 46 Home to the Imam Ali Mosque, built in the seventh century

47 ___ Reactor (Iron Man’s power source) 48 Weathered, say 50 “Je t’___” 51 Products of Under Armour and Nike 56 “Could you give more detail?” 57 Certain

summer attire

Down

1 Enter the picture? 2 Muted trumpet sound 3 Pub container 4 Claim to fame for Freeport, Me.

5 Zen riddles 6 People who built the Qhapaq Ñan, or “Royal Road,” which stretched roughly 3,700 miles

7 High degree 8 1960s spy

series

9 Path an electron may take moving in a constant magnetic field 10 Nobel Prize

subj.

11 City section 12 Lucky strike 13 Gets on a

mailing list, say 14 Pick up 15 Hearty dinner

entrees 21 Big name in

laptops 22 Grand

23 Much of Gen

Alpha, now 24 Train route 26 Hon 27 Unsparing response to a complaint 28 Isn’t 100% 30 Slant

31 Not a company

person? 33 Substitute 34 Mosaic tiles 35 Romanov V.I.P. 36 ___ Candy, best friend of Wonder Woman 39 Jason who played Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter films 40 Plaything for a

Greek god 41 Trump is

named in it 43 Delilah player in 1949’s “Samson and Delilah” 45 Large bay window projecting from a wall 46 Two-legged

stand

48 Cable channel owned by AMC Networks 49 Great Plains

people

50 Police dept.

alerts 52 Rebecca ___ Crumpler, first African-American female physician in the U.S.

53 Small cells 54 Org. that administers the G.R.E. 55 French article