NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Cause for a blessing 6 Frodo’s friend in “The

Lord of the Rings” 9 Hirohito’s home

14 Side dish at a Chinese restaurant 16 “Lakmé”or“Lohengrin” 17 Not be contained anymore

19 Org. with oral reports? 20 Things that swing at a swing dance 21 Peeve

22 Actress Rowlands 23 Word with party or skinny 24 Transcript fig. 27 Forget one’s place in a conversation 30 Having fine granules 31 Edward Teach ___ “Blackbeard”

32 Not bamboozled by 33 “Alas …”

34 “Later!”

35 The Trojan horse

and Pandora’s box 36 Opposed

37 Josh

38 Gives hands down? 39 Have measurable

impact

42 Places to which

M.D.s rush 43 English novelist McEwan

44 Owner of Zipcar 45 Antlered beast

46 Zone

47 “I did not need to know that!”

50 Make laugh hysterically 55 Honey-yellow

56 Old, cylindrical music collectible

57 Shot in the dark

58 Dis, with “on” 59 Delivery person’s assignment

DOWN

1 Group that inspired Broadway’s “Mamma Mia!” 2 “Darn!”

3 Part of un día 4 Reactions

to buffets? 5 Surreptitiously

6 Not take any more cards 7 Book preceding Romans 8 Uninspired

9 Conrad who wrote “Lord Jim” 10 Pinnacle

11 Tiny brain size 12 Place to take a shot 13 “Life Is Good” rapper 15 Blues singer Ma 18 Tony-winning musical with the song “Another Suitcase in Another Hall” 22 Net asset?

23 Hockey feint 24 Soothing

25 Ways to wend 26 Turmoils

27 Some flat screens 28 So-called “Father of

the String Quartet” 29 Kansas City team 30 Stately home 33 “Ditto”

34 “That’s good”: Fr. 35 Dispute settler 37 Material for a

military uniform 38 Prepare for eating,

as shrimp 40 Mosaicists

41 Aid in tracking wildlife 45 Lead-in days

46 It’s west of the Pacific 47 Holier-than-___ 48 What snowmen

do in the sun 49 Oahu, Maui or Kauai 50 Fall behind

51 Avian sprinter 52 “Honest” prez 53 “Science Friday”

broadcaster 54 ___-Magnon