NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 High branch, for short
7 “Don’t make me laugh!”
13 Library of Alexandria collection
14 It reaches Washington heights
15 First name in flight
16 Boxer whose full name is made up of only three different letters
17 Pea piercers
18 Endangered wetlands reptile of the northeastern U.S.
19 Name in a noted ’90s breakup
20 Back up
21 Bagel variety
22 Pull (out)
23 Sterling Cooper ___ Pryce (“Mad Men” ad agency)
25 Pig tail?
26 Break down for closer analysis, as data
30 Iconic iphone addition of 2011
33 Ones exploited in a capitalist system, per Marx
35 Corvine cry
38 First international rock band to play in Cuba (2016), with “the”
39 Raider’s grp.
40 Hardly klutzy
43 Christine ___ Whitman, first female governor of New Jersey
44 Victorian greeting
45 Dead tree edition
47 Hat tips
48 “Anyhoo ...”
49 Shout from a teen’s bedroom
50 Petty tyrants
51 Green party?
52 Diamonds used in fashion
53 Places of rest
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1 Whirlpools
2 Sleeveless undergarment
3 Family time at the pool
4 President when Texas was admitted to the Union
5 “Exodus” novelist
6 “Cheap Thrills” pop star
7 Dressage criterion
8 Grease
9 Snafu
10 Having a gap
11 “Whoa, ___!”
12 Position
14 Inductee into the National Toy Hall of Fame five years after his sister
16 They go around in circles
18 High-flying picnic game
20 “___ Wife,” Pulitzer Prizewinning George Kelly play
23 Already: Fr.
24 Like corduroy
27 Yoga pose done on hands and knees
28 Acts lovey-dovey
29 Lent feature
31 Topping brand with multiple misspellings in its name
32 Proposed legislation often debated alongside the DACA program
34 Goes along
35 Literally, “heads”
36 Moroccan resort city on the Atlantic
37 Clearing
41 Like herons and flamingos
42 Documentarian Morris
44 Unexpected windfall, figuratively
46 Give up
47 Insensitive sort
49 Major vitamin retailer