New york times crossword

ACROSS

1 Lively dances in 2/4 time 7 Smallest country

in mainland Africa 13 Had a fit?

15 Indian or Mexican 16 Frazzled commuter’s comment 17 One getting on 18 How someone may be interrupted 20 Country club

figure

21 Language with

a trilled “r”

22 Verb in the first telegraph message 23 They’re encouraged on a ketogenic diet 24 Encouraging

words

25 Japanese stock

holder

26 Lead-in to comic 27 “Super” thing in

games, once 28 Force of

nature?

30 Bit of

belt-tightening 31 Longtime talk show host with a degree from Harvard

34 Ethnic group that makes up about 18% of the world’s population

37 Silly tricks 38 Ones on

Telemundo 39 Athlete known as

“The Black Pearl” 40 “What, will these hands ___ be clean?”: Lady Macbeth 41 Wee warbler 42 Luxurious Italian

house

43 Abbr. for those who don’t like parties 44 Bisector of the

Fertile Crescent 46 Road Runners’

race classification 48 Neighbor of

an Austrian

49 Part of an oven 50 Money in

the Bible

51 What’s left 52 Prepare to go

DOWN

1 Secretary of war to Taft, Roosevelt and Truman 2 First word of the Constitution after the preamble 3 Messes up 4 Wild things 5 Shop shapers 6 Any minute 7 Mean Miss of “The Wizard of Oz”

8 Second

9 Ed.’s inbox filler 10 Cameo 11 Resistance

to change

12 Kind of can 14 Overhyped event,

in slang

15 One who gets

bent out of shape 19 Connecticut

Yankee, e.g. 23 Pedal pushers 25 “Love ___” 26 Emulated

Rumpelstiltskin 28 Hunter College is

part of it, in brief 29 Summer coolers 30 Attorney general before Reno 31 Disbeliever’s question 32 Prelims

33 Is unobliged to 34 “My word!” 35 Chewy, in a way 36 Proximate 39 Dividing shrub 41 Toon with a

middle initial 42 Drudge

44 List

45 Smeltery refuse 47 Nowhere to be

found, for short