New york times crossword

ACROSS

1 Gang member associated with the color blue 5 Powerful ray 10 Sorority letters 14 Advanced 15 Spinning

16 “I’m so sorry” 17 Marie who

married at 14 19 Bean town? 20 Painting of a

bouquet, e.g. 21 Israeli P.M. between Netanyahu and Sharon

22 With assurance 23 Make deep cuts in 25 Caesarean

section? 26 Easy-to-eat, in a

way

27 Wyoming town that’s home to the Buffalo Bill Museum 28 Relatives of tails 29 Steamy

place

30 Rapping 31 Switzerland’s ___

de Neuchâtel 34 Something a lawyer might make 35 Something that’s “free” (although that’s debatable) 36 They’re hard to

beat

39 Can’t not

40 Head case, so to

speak

41 Rich cakes

42 Man with ___ 43 Ship-to-ship

communication 45 Courts

46 Dead ringers? 47 Best Picture before “12 Years a Slave” 48 Contradict 49 Olympic racer 50 Texter’s

valediction 51 Does nothing 52 Spy

DOWN

1 Makeup of a high school reading list

2 Mall authority figure 3 Palestinian uprising 4 Astronomer with a geocentric model of the universe 5 Macho 6 “Whose woods these ___ …”: Frost 7 Modern invitation to hook up 8 Chats

9 A bitter pull to swallow? 10 Guiding light 11 Full-bodied red 12 Joint tenant? 13 Gouged

18 Latin pronoun 21 Stupefy

24 Moth repellent 26 Ended a phone

call?

28 King of Cups, e.g. 30 Sing about? 31 “Hey!”

32 Hannah Montana,

for one 33 Narrowly

spaced 34 Protection from

harmful rays 35 “Eight Elvises” and “Sixteen Jackies”

36 Really annoy 37 Bit of news 38 Panegyric

39 Ice planet in “The Empire Strikes Back”

41 Pecks, in a way 44 Role for a young

Ron Howard 46 Spy grp.