new york times crossword

ACROSS

1 Alternatives to strollers 11 Stumpers? 15 Repetitive farewell from “The Sound of Music” 16 Place

17 Show around

the area? 18 Word from the Latin for “seaweed” 19 Swam with the

fishes, say 20 Prominent instrument in raga music

21 Put on ___ 22 Creek

relative

24 It was launched on the same day as Windows 95 25 Proud, passionate type, supposedly 28 Downturn 29 Rapper ___

Khalifa 30 Blarney stone? 33 Problems resulting from a poor paternal relationship 34 Simple business,

frankly speaking? 35 Trick

36 It comes before

long

37 Main antagonist

in “Toy Story” 38 Bit

41 Causing change 44 Former Spice Girl

Halliwell

45 ___ Falls, N.Y. 46 Auction figures 50 Emmy-winning

newsman Roger 51 Seller of shooting

equipment 52 Saucony

competitor 53 Spitball, e.g. 54 Tammany Hall

cartoonist

55 Elite operative,

for short

DOWN

1 Aromatic resin 2 Studmuffin 3 Two-pointed hat worn by Napoleon

4 All these ___ … 5 Show signs of a sore loser 6 Spike 7 Subject of devotion 8 Frasier’s brother on “Frasier” 9 Scientists who measure the exact shape and size of Earth

10 Big ___ 11 Everyday 12 Houston and Dallas, historically 13 Passport or driver’s license 14 International soccer star Luis ___

20 First name in

psychoanalysis 23 People of

southern Kenya 25 Equipment found in warehouse stores

26 Author Welty 27 Places to go out and have a gas? 30 Excess 31 Trash-talk 32 Massive resource:

Abbr.

33 What Hawaii has that Alaska lacks? 34 Extremely,

informally 35 Comedian 38 Expert on bugs 39 Shaded ring 40 Drive away

42 Stop by

43 Titular misanthrope in a Shakespeare play 44 Hearts

47 Already: Fr.

48 “Go back” button abbr. on some remotes 49 Off-color 51 Computer

hardware inits.