NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 One with a train, maybe
6 Stick around on July 4?
14 Shake
15 Lincoln, for one
16 Middle name of the writer born Nelle Lee
17 “Unbelievable!”
18 Maintains
19 Regulator of IUDS
20 Rep
21 Prefix with -graph
22 Prefix with -graph
23 Hotel room extra
24 “Star Trek” catchphrase
27 Nursing ___
30 Carefully exiting a parking space, say
31 Compile
32 Fragrant rice
33 Zooms past
35 Dendrogram, more familiarly
36 Hit below the belt
38 Part of P.S.T.: Abbr.
39 Comes around, say
40 Do nothin’
41 “How Long ___ Black Future Month?” (N. K. Jemisin shortstory collection)
42 Scoop
44 Word with secret or source
46 Order for a big party, maybe
47 Pumped
48 “There’s no hope for me now”
50 Kind of flour used in marzipan
51 Elbows, e.g.
52 Appropriates
53 It covers the field
54 Minute, informally
DOWN
1 Cause of an uptick in Scottish tourism beginning in 1995
2 Like albums that include bonus tracks, often
3 “Let’s see what you’ve got”
4 They might go for a few bucks
5 Overthrow, e.g.
6 Tied the knot
7 Sponsor of Usain Bolt
8 ___ distance
9 Setting for a meet cute
10 Retailer originally named the S. S. Kresge Company
11 Do nothing
12 Just got (by)
13 What those with protanomaly have difficulty seeing
14 Word uttered while pointing
19 Like eggshells
22 Very low stake?
23 Acropolis, e.g.
25 ___ de los Reyes
26 Hold together with duct tape, maybe
27 Orchestra that performs an annual Fireworks Spectacular
28 First and last name of Rihanna
29 ___ Raisman, second-mostdecorated Olympic gymnast in U.S. history
31 Fruit that’s a major Chinese export
32 Best-selling K-pop group
34 Org. with operations
37 Obelix’s friend in comics
39 Some Spanish titles
40 Home of the Strat, the tallest observation tower in the U.S.
43 Some calculations in 40-Down
44 Actor ___ Benson Miller
45 Rate
46 Numbers game
47 Ingredient in some gel face masks
48 Puck, for one
49 San Francisco’s ___ Hill
50 Asexual, informally