NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Barely keeping up
with things, say 10 Group featured on many “Sesame Street” episodes 14 Look down on
something? 16 Suckling site 17 Starter’s follower 18 Home for a Hogarth or a Constable, with “the”
19 Word with twentyor thirty20 Robust
21 Medium state 23 Name that’s an anagram of both 16- and 18-Across 24 Key
25 M.L.B.’S oldest continuously operating franchise, established as the Boston
Red Stockings in 1871
28 One watching the
kids?
29 Drew
30 Causes of
puckering
31 “My man!” 32 “___ Ordinary Man” (“My Fair Lady” tune) 33 Binary code
snippets
34 Scott of “See Dad
Run”
35 Aristocrat, in
British slang 36 They’re broken at
marathons
37 Unit of magnetic
flux
38 Doesn’t travel, say 40 Bacchanalian
beasts 41 Congresswoman who once served in the U.S. cabinet
42 Item for a
croupier
43 Chain with a loaf of bread in its logo
44 Starburst? 45 Engine speed
inits.
48 Mount near
Olympus
49 Means of devastation on “Game of Thrones”
52 Level 53 Fantabulous 54 One week, for many beach house rentals 55 Just barely reacts
DOWN
1 ___ pants
2 Text notification before a time stamp
3 Like much of Arizona
4 Cab alternative 5 Went cruising, say 6 Puffs up
7 It’s down in the mouth
8 “Your majesty” 9 Confirmation 10 Online action symbolized by a paper clip 11 Collectible from what’s been called the world’s first internet sensation 12 Claw-proof crate 13 Hefty barriers to
entry
15 Spineless sorts,
metaphorically 22 Hazards for rural
travel
23 Level
24 Traffic directors 25 Shortcomings
26 “I heard …”
27 It’s east of the
Horn of Africa 28 Flight board
column
30 Like go-getters 33 Burns’s “The Soldier’s Return” and others
34 “La Belle et la
___” (French fairy tale)
36 Bit of a lift 37 Fictional land in the highestgrossing film of 2018
39 Like one’s eyes after a poor night’s sleep 40 Doesn’t inhale,
say
42 Substitute
teacher?
44 Where many stop and smell the rosés 45 Completely
ready
46 They’re low on the
food chain
47 No more than 50 Chafe
51 Goal of a
diversion