NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Cut along the

grain

7 Collection of

offers?

13 “Them” 15 Component of

ants on a log 16 Flash setting 18 Who shot Mr. Burns on the classic TV episode “Who Shot Mr. Burns?” 19 Lowly sorts, in

pirate lingo 21 Goes so- o- o

slowly

22 ___ orange 23 Unenthused

response

24 A. P. R.- lowering

option

25 Really

digging 26 Mesoamerican language family with about half a million speakers 28 Sites of sudden admissions, for short 29 A pop

30 Carolers’

wear

31 Middle- distance options on fairways

32 The ___ Five, nickname for the “Queer Eye” cast 35 Flip

36 Political commentator Perino 37 Non-nons? 38 Onetime airer of “Music City Tonight” 39 Multitudes 40 Kind of mold 41 Producers of sharp increases in height? 43 Score marking to play higher or lower than written 45 Summer carnival

treat

46 One pile of

laundry

47 “What are you

waiting for?!” 48 Ostracized group

in the Bible

49 ___ March (annual

event since 2017)

DOWN

1 Band with the 1974 hit “Come and Get Your Love” 2 Bucktooth, e. g. 3 Student body

activity? 4 Polluted, in a way 5 Novelist Bender 6 Small dam 7 Channel that airs

many B&W films 8 Passenger car

attachments 9 Some Prado

masterpieces 10 Groupie 11 Etymology, for

example 12 Rewards for regular- season winners, maybe 14 Racket pros 17 Mike and Carol Brady, on “The Brady Bunch” 20 Putting in a tight

spot

26 ___ cards ( ESP

testing items) 27 Slangy

sedative 29 Covers, as a

pothole

30 Hiss

31 Strike that’s

barely struck 32 Unfair trick

33 ___ Dolohov, one of the Death Eaters in Harry Potter books 34 Relatives of

bloodhounds 35 Author who popularized the demon Mephistopheles 36 Counterpart of a brick- andmortar business 39 Strictly uphold 40 Prominent part of a bloodhound 42 Early movie mogul

Marcus

44 Behind