NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 LP, e.g.

5 Stories with many chapters 10 Instagram and others 14 Getting paid, say 16 Trouble with a tap 17 Part of a Central American grove 18 Field mouse

19 Beam shooter

20 Mel in Cooperstown 21 ___ dixit (unproven assertion) 22 Jerks

23 It takes time to sink in 25 ___ Decor (magazine) 26 Demand from a school bully

27 Hi or lo follower

28 Spit out

29 More minimalist, say 30 Series of rounds 31 Place to fish from 32 “___ the Sheep” (“Wallace and Gromit” spinoff)

34 Potential drain obstruction

35 Fate worse than a ticket

38 What goes after

the wrong type? 40 Fall Out Boy’s “Sugar, ___ Goin Down” 41 Pipe sellers 42 Brad’s gal in

“The Rocky Horror Picture Show” 43 Tombstone figure 44 Cheap beer option,

for short

45 Country 46 Hotel/casino on

the Vegas Strip

47 Foul

49 Go on a tweetstorm,

say

50 Aquanaut’s chamber 51 Leg up

52 Word with skirt or strip 53 Pastoral verse

DOWN

1 Eponymous Austrian physicist who studied waves 2 Owing money 3 London burial place of John Donne and Horatio Nelson

4 “As ___ as unsunn’d

snow”: Shak.

5 Mark of a villain,

maybe

6 Not mainstream, informally

7 One of a series of attempts 8 Vinegary

9 Resource for an

artist to draw on? 10 Like some boards 11 Balloonist’s tankful

12 Tall, slender, footed glass 13 No-wait

15 What a colon might denote 23 Drop

24 Store name with a big red initial 26 What shuttles leave from

28 What the Egyptian deity Ammit devoured 30 Chrome dome, so to speak 31 Google ___

32 Like some fish and olives

33 Court procedure 34 Dress down

35 Comfy safari digs 36 Stewart’s onetime TV

sparring partner 37 Battery type

38 Bundle up

39 Fictional figure whose name means “hole dweller”

40 Hot green stuff 42 Psychologist who coined the word “synchronicity” 45 Venue for broomball 48 AWOL, so to speak