NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 They may make the rounds

5 Lounging wear

15 Coat color

16 Question often asked after twirling

17 Some O.K.s 18 Rambo sort

19 Word with hatch or room

21 Coffee shop freebies

22 Many a Wall St. hire

23 Fracking target

24 Circumspect

25 Amazon icon

26 Saint’s place

28 Pastel shade

29 Low-___ diet

30 “O” follower

31 Part of Wayne Manor

35 Request to Dad, maybe

36 Like a pact with the Devil

37 Modern-day home of the classical poet Hafez

38 Jobs in tech

39 Subject of a 1984 mockumentary

44 Flag

45 Spill something

46 First name in country

47 Part of an embassy address, for short 48 “Oh, darn!”

49 Edible seed of a pumpkin or squash

50 Some baby talk

53 Rostrum

54 1983 hit with the line “She’s been living in her white bread world”

55 Look at on the beach, say

56 College application components

57 Backpacker’s pack

DOWN

1 “Gunsmoke” actor James

2 Kind of pork

3 Antic

4 Marked down

5 One going everywhere on foot?

6 Peso : Mexico :: ___ : Korea

7 Baby animal in a parable in II Samuel

8 Esteem

9 Sycophant

10 Figures usually held in one’s head

11 Like

12 Movie with the 1979 Oscar-winning song “It Goes Like It Goes” 13 Patriot leader

14 Book of celestial maps

20 Bedsheet material

24 Abraded

25 Bop

27 Bandmate of Micky, Peter and Michael of the Monkees

28 Bloodshed

30 Co-star of Ferrell in 2003’s “Elf”

31 Laugh heartily

32 Benedict X, but not IX or XI

33 “Tonight Show” house band

34 Arm that’s tucked away

35 Copy illegally

37 Thin tablet

39 Nancy’s friend in the comics

40 Sycophant

41 Ranking system of a sort

42 Verdi opera set in the fifth century

43 Particle beam weapon

45 Rodeo sight, informally

48 Female whales

49 Buds

51 Caught

52 Kaplan book subj.