On Wednesday morning, Robert Yuskaitis looked outside and saw hundreds of barn swallows wheeling and swarming over the lakeshore behind his house on Basin Drive. He knew what was up: The blind mosq… ...

It’s ROOTLE, which has appeared in the New York Times puzzle only a few times since its debut in 1951; it’s an excellent, evocative term, too. 119A. [Slant skyward] was also hard for me to ...