NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Loud, as a radio 7 What stars do 14 Repeatedly hit 15 Some petroleum 16 Play out, as

events

17 “I wanna hear

everything” 18 Pioneer in steam

engines 20 Complete coverage? 21 Early people who used a base-20 numerical system 22 Sorrowful cries 23 Rapper ___

Rhymes

24 What closes

on Sundays? 25 Cut

27 Fun bit of trivia 32 ___ Tech (former

for-profit school) 33 Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Raisman 34 “Children of the

Albatross” author 35 Vietnamese soup 36 Doesn’t snap 40 Billies 41 Packing ___ 42 They may have stained-glass windows 45 Playbill bit 46 Police line?

47 Cut

48 Internet in-jokes that have gone viral, in modern lingo 50 Individual’s unique use of language 52 How dishes are

usually sold 54 Martial arts holds that are hard to escape 55 President Bartlet on “The West Wing”

56 One waiting for

the captain? 57 Invites out for

DOWN

1 ___-Bakr, longtime adviser to Muhammad 2 Any member of Saul’s tribe, in the Bible 3 Close friend of Hamilton, in “Hamilton” 4 Fighter of Ferocious Flea in 1960s cartoons 5 Hamilton and 3-Down, in “Hamilton” 6 Quashes 7 “Absolutely unacceptable!” 8 Cartoonist

Kelly

9 Breed

10 Travel from site to site? 11 Screwballs 12 Calculus calculation 13 Multi-time W.N.B.A. All-Star ___ Delle Donne

15 Be a

homebody

19 Mary Jane

21 Zayn formerly of

One Direction 23 “___ chance!” 25 Bud inducted into Cooperstown in 2017 26 Belts

28 Performs some light surgery?

29 Loss of a sound at the start of a word, as “opossum” to “possum”

30 Spot in the third

balcony, say 31 Trespassing and

defamation 37 Chemical compounds in so-called hospital smell

38 Poisons

39 1994 Jim Carrey

comedy

42 2007 #1 Alicia

Keys album

43 Man of the cloth 44 Moves at

a crawl? 46 Mexican

bread

48 Art ___

49 Goya subject 51 Alley-oop starter 53 Tennyson’s “You Ask Me, Why, ___ Ill at Ease”