new york times crossword

ACROSS

1 Blogs, social media and other nontraditional outlets 12 Enlightened responses 15 Option when

changing jobs 16 ___ Irvin, early cartoonist/ designer for The New Yorker 17 Dirt spreader 18 Roam (about) 19 Winter Olympics

sights

20 Italian sculptor ___ Lorenzo Bernini 21 Section of a

Crayola box 22 ___ talk 23 Campaign

supporters 24 ___ Park 25 Words of

explanation 27 Pennsylvania city where the Delaware and Lehigh Rivers meet 28 Exhibiting a modern form of obsession 31 Quick way to end

a sentence? 32 “Where does it all

end?” argument 33 Socket for setting

a gem

34 Food preservers 35 “Any ___?” 36 Dolphinfish,

informally 38 Flavor additive,

in brief

41 It goes clockwise or counterclockwise depending on the hemisphere 42 Legend says it arose on Palatine Hill 43 Search for prey 45 ___-con 46 Offshore waves? 48 Grade of wine 49 Projecting beams

on a bridge 50 Cornerstone abbr. 51 Reading and writing, for most jobs

DOWN

1 Guinness Book

adjective

2 “Go, me!”

3 Of renown 4 Stepped

5 Start of a start of a menu? 6 The Liberty Tree, for one

7 Ad agency specialist 8 Picker-upper

9 Fuel for

planes

10 Follower of four or

six, but not five 11 Mess up 12 Containing

silver

13 Without

deliberation 14 Breakup tune 21 Forwards

23 Little squealer 24 Hollande’s successor as president of France

25 Factor in Billboard

rankings

26 Buster of myths 27 Latin list ender 28 Extricated

from a jam 29 Reason

30 Concept of beauty 31 Slow and steady

types 32 Prestigious academic journal

36 When cock-adoodle-doos are done

37 Italian known for

pulling strings? 38 Paradigm

39 Ice cream

choice

40 Part of a makeup

kit

42 Org. fighting copyright infringement 43 Like very early education, for short

44 ___ Shankar, influence on George Harrison 46 Chemical contaminant, for short

47 High ways?