new york times crossword

ACROSS

1 ___ shoes (ballet wear)

7 Museum

installations 13 Asok in “Dilbert,”

e.g.

14 Farm feed holder 15 Holds back, for

now

16 1972 hit with the lyric “You can bend but never break me”

17 Nail site

18 Strong objection 20 It. is in it 21 Spinning out of

control 23 Impersonated 24 Historic town in

SE Connecticut 25 ___ Kapoor, “Slumdog Millionaire” actor

27 Skewers

28 Design of park land requiring minimal water 32 Gymnast who won all-around gold in Rio 33 Computer crash

cause

34 Word after half or

before size

35 Fill

36 What a jam is

packed with 40 Labrador greeting 41 Lived in a love

nest

44 Lord Byron, notably, in his personal life 46 Rose Bowl and

others 47 Tampa-to-Naples

dir.

48 Big part of

Greenland 50 Glorification 52 Knee injury common among athletes

53 Ready to face

another day, say 54 Rubes, north of

the border 55 Dawns

DOWN

1 It has a stigma 2 Like some bagels

and dips 3 Grp. troubleshooting a 33-Across 4 Platform for early Zelda games, for short

5 Travel in large numbers 6 Feeling akin to Weltschmerz 7 Group that 5-Downs

8 Its spirit may be broken

9 In a bit, to bards

10 Fast times? 11 Classification for violent video games 12 Ecclesiastical

jurisdictions 14 Pasta dinner

staple 16 “Obviously!”

19 To whom a conductor reports

22 Like much locker room humor

26 Retreat 27 Go through 29 Pre-hosp. childbirth aide, often

30 Graceful antlered

animals 31 Intifada grp. 32 Petroleum

substitutes

33 It blows across the Mediterranean 34 One who’s

blackballed 37 What a pop-up link might lead to

38 Shade akin to

chestnut 39 Interstate

numbers 42 Widely used antibiotic brand

43 Wife of Mike

Pence

45 Italia’s

Casa d’___ 46 High ___ 49 “Death Becomes ___” (Meryl Streep film) 51 Jerk