NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Genre akin to

indie rock

7 Fellow 12 Co-organizer of the 1970 Women’s Strike for Equality 14 Modern topic in

race relations 15 Sci-fi natives of the planet Kashyyyk

16 Little

monsters 17 Programming

keyword 18 Longtime TV

tavern

20 To whom Durocher was referring when he said “Nice guys finish last” 22 Little

wriggler

23 Wise one

26 Go through

the roof

27 Where bows

may be made 28 It’s described as fine and flake-like in Exodus 29 Piece of glib journalism often written under a tight deadline 32 Theatrical hybrid 34 Insect that’s

born pregnant 35 8, e.g.

37 “Are you blind,

ump?,” e.g. 38 Course on

courses, for short 39 Tearing up, say 42 Tolkien’s Prancing

Pony, for one

43 3, 4, 5 and

occasionally more 44 Opposite of

doddery

45 Quite off

47 Lover of history? 51 Field in which a helmet and gloves are often worn 53 Award-winning Cartoon Network series with Finn the Human and Jake the Dog 54 Repeated lyric in the Who’s “Tommy”

55 Twist and turn DOWN 1 Uniform 2 “There’s not a ___ can do” 3 Word with family or Christmas 4 Main, say 5 Sculler 6 Wave function denoter in quantum mechanics 7 Some Vietnam War protests 8 Disney’s “___ & Stitch” 9 Corresponding

exactly

10 Frat party

stunt

11 Suffix in

linguistics 12 Popular word

game

13 Soap box? 14 Bolt (down) 15 Like Tom Thumb 19 Wired

21 What someone may be holding while waiting 23 Kind of roe 24 What had a double standard in the Bible?

25 Try to win 26 Uniform

27 Ruckus

28 Fashion designer

Ecko

29 Traveler to a

certain 27-Across 30 Request at

the dentist’s 31 “How dare they!” 33 Regret 36 “Apologies” 38 Rushed

39 Rush

40 Red ___

41 Red ___

43 Cut back

44 Snail trail 46 Paragraph in the newspaper, say 48 Look the wrong

way?

49 Subject of a

cellphone cap 50 Move like a fairy 51 Biological

duct

52 Palooka