Mind Games
ACROSS
1 Climate-change skeptics are often said to be in it
7 Go backwards, backwards
14 Suspects
15 Cinnamon or ginger may be used to make it
16 “Stable genius” Trump’s mental status, according to Trump
17 One way to learn
18 Began anew
20 It rules Myanmar
23 Farah Fawcett’s paramour Ryan
24 Something to convert to
27 Song by U2 or Harry Nilsson
28 Broadway musical featuring Rumpleteazer
29 Actress Dern
31 Uproar
32 Do drugs
33 Industrial rocker Trent who went on a “Self-Destruct” tour
34 Musical performance
37 Piet Mondrian painted in it
38 Boys named for a biblical Phoenician king
39 Joe Dimaggio’s less famous bro
40 He designed a famous pyramid
41 Clumsy
42 “Warm lights in ___ a secret chamber shine”: Edna St. Vincent Millay
43 Cleveland Cavaliers, from 2015 to 2018, for short
44 American beer initials
45 Burnett, winner of 13 Grammys from 2001 to 2012
47 Roles
49 His father told him, “Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought”: Henry IV, Part 2
51 Tattoo’s boss on Fantasy Island
54 Sun god of Greek mythology whose son Phaeton died trying to drive his chariot
58 Class of poisons
59 Judicial clemency
60 Hint for 1- and 7-across, 21- and 25-down
61 Sigmund and Anna who studied mechanisms of 60-across
DOWN
1 Compliment, to one in denial
2 Esta, to a Spaniard in denial
3 Oui, to a Parisian in denial
4 Active, to one in denial
5 Knows where one is, to one in denial
6 Amount a pauper has, to one in denial
7 Notre Dame has lost two, the second time in April 2019
8 Member of a sorority, slangily
9 Two-handled soup bowls
10 Used books are sold in this condition
11 Insurance policy often provided by employers, for short
12 The electric kind does just as well in water
13 Semi-mythical owner of many NYC pizzerias
15 Arrhenius, first Swedish Nobel laureate, to his mother
19 Give a tribute to
20 French Renaissance poet du Bellay, to his mother
21 “His compassion for you will be his ___.”: Emperor to Darth Vader
22 Color of some signage
24 Tree that produces gin blossoms?
25 Speak up
26 Favors for a vampire hunting party?
28 Mangy dogs
30 “___ Might Be Next for Magic”: 1991 LA Times headline on
Johnson’s HIV declaration
33 ___ Ma, rapper with 10M Instagram followers
35 Nickname for shield-bearing hero of Marvel’s Avengers
36 Railway transport for lifesaving professionals?
37 Political candidate in an election year
39 Salsa, Floss, Lambada, etc.
42 One of the daydream believers?
46 Anhinga, vulture, bee-eater, etc.
47 Tissue, construction, or drawing
48 How leopards spend most of their time
49 Corn ___
50 What optimists and pessimists agree on in a water glass?
51 Stock listing for the Golden Arches
52 Goes with pastrami and mustard
53 Letters for fighters marked with bullseyes
55 Common surname in China
56 Suffix for a restricted-liability co.
57 Replies to bad news
