NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Saucy ones

6 Brand with Prime Cuts 10 “Deck the Halls” octet 13 Seller of Halloween costumes, perhaps 15 Highland body 16 “Fingers and toes crossed …”

17 Need to play, say

18 Show tiredness

19 Cave ___ (beware the dog)

20 Texas A&M athlete 21 Kind of wave 22 Supersmall, futuristic medical device

24 Series of tweets

27 Series of tweets 28 Humanitarian Wallenberg

29 Skilled at dodging 30 Afflict

31 Like zero

32 Lines on a park map 33 Abbreviated title without the second, third, fourth and sixth letters

34 Conducted 35 Oscar-nominated director of “Network” and “Dog Day Afternoon”

36 Statues of mermaids, typically

37 Didn’t use the can? 39 Great shakes 40 “Grant them ___ rest”

(requiem opening)

41 Barely

42 Some R.S.V.P.S 43 Favorite bar, say

45 Big retailer in outdoor gear

48 Daft

49 Device found between gutters 51 Applies

52 Record kept for travel reimbursement

53 Code for Australia’s busiest airport

54 Call it a day

55 Honkers

DOWN

1 Take a turn

2 Home of N.Y.C.’S Colonnade Row 3 Album holder

4 Little pointer 5 Off-menu offering 6 When “S.N.L.” ends on the East Coast 7 Seating request 8 Senior moment?

9 Ref. work in which the verb “set” has a 60,000-word entry 10 Four-wheeled transports that developed out of surf culture

11 One of the top things on a to-do list

12 What a pane!

14 Word after “take a” or “take the”

15 Africa’s largest city that’s not a national capital

20 Guitarist Summers of the Police

21 Alone, to Alain

23 Trojan War participant 24 Transportation option in Philadelphia and Seattle

25 Not experience the same difficulties as others

26 Like cars at Consumer Reports

27 Held in suspense 29 Expensive coat material

32 Aqua ___

33 Befit

35 It helps you focus 36 Little something put away for later

38 Lock

39 Jazz great who took his name from Egyptian mythology 41 Cocktail with bourbon and sugar over crushed ice

44 “It was ___ dream” 45 Be awesome

46 Freudian concept 47 Writer nicknamed the “Playwright of the Midwest”

49 “The Ultimate Driving Machine” sloganeer 50 Aid in driving