new york times crossword

ACROSS

1 Like a hermit 9 Response to a sophomoric comment

15 Score after opening with an ace, informally 16 Secret ___ 17 Catch of all

catches, of a sort 18 Singer of the Wagner aria “Liebestod” 19 Least cool 20 Make a feast of 21 Looks forward to

the next spring? 22 Feature of Namibia and Libya

24 Root used

in perfumery 25 James ___, 1990-94 New Jersey governor 26 Noodle soup

noodle

27 Joint flare-up? 31 Got some action 32 Method of fishing 33 Station that people once looked up to 34 Goes over

the line? 36 Company added to the Dow

30 in 2013

37 Dr. Brody of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” 38 Draw toward dark 39 Scenery

chewer 42 Grinders,

of a sort

43 Tree favored

by giraffes 44 Dubonnet or

Campari

46 Box at the gym? 47 Bad news on the

stock market 48 Part of

a record 49 Lowdown

sneak

50 Quick shots 51 Many people take them to bed nowadays

DOWN

1 “Should there be

any question …” 2 Corn on the

cob, e.g. 3 Replaced, as on a computer 4 Shows the way

5 Force in the Battle of Dunkirk 6 Shakespeare’s First and Second Folios, e.g. 7 Spacewalks, in NASA lingo 8 It covers bridges, typically 9 Primitive cooking equipment 10 Situated (in) 11 Alito’s predecessor on the Supreme Court 12 Toon who uses his middle initial

13 High styles 14 Ones always banging their heads against things?

23 Female factory workers in W.W. II, informally 25 West Coast locale mentioned in “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” 27 Some fruit

pastries

28 Like store brands vis-à-vis name brands, typically 29 Waterway that lent its name to two French departments 30 Students arriving

late?

32 Most

airheaded

35 Clam

36 T.S.A.

requirement 38 ___ Ochoa, 2017 Golf Hall of Fame inductee 39 Papa Bear of

the N.F.L.

40 Kind of squash 41 Photog’s lens 42 Intervening,

at law

45 “How ___ are they that have not patience!”: Iago