NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Ring up?

5 Playing at a party, maybe

10 U.S. soccer legend ___ Howard

13 Devil ___ the tailors (pub game)

15 Kept going

16 Co-founder of Artists Against Fracking

17 Stage offering

18 Like the 16th-century ruler Cuauhtémoc

19 Moniker for a noted Boston skyscraper, with “the”

20 Specs for a modiste

22 Readathon supporters, for short

23 Relief

24 ___ nerve (biceps neighbor)

25 Cans

26 Inside dope

28 Where “Home” might be found

30 Stuffed

31 Utter 32 “Wow, that’s wild!”

34 Exemption from usual consequences

36 Some O.K. fighters

40 Relatives of cornets

41 The “BA” of the Boston museum MOBA

42 Splash against

43 Rotated, in a way, to a pilot

45 Smallish hail size

46 Motorcycle pioneers ___ and Effie Hotchkiss

47 Most times

49 Operation that yields the remainder from dividing two numbers, in math lingo

50 Entropy

51 Word in the name of many candy offshoots

52 It includes ://

53 13-Across, in French

54 Opening in a leaf

55 ___-ops

56 Porous soil

57 Joie de vivre

DOWN

1 Tough, uncompromising sort

2 Kafka’s unfinished first novel, published posthumously in 1927

3 “Five stars from

me”

4 Charge

5 Household locale where the Coriolis effect is supposedly observed

6 Cold War-era group that included Louis Armstrong

7 Dating profile info

8 Vetoes

9 Vitamin Shoppe competitor

10 “Betcha can’t

beat my score!”

11 Accessible

12 Salon stock

14 It’s a blessing

21 Having designs

22 Window you might want to close quickly 25 “Creature From the Black Lagoon” co-star

27 Some fresh starts

29 Home of the world’s longest road tunnel (15 miles): Abbr.

31 “Regardless …”

33 Mount ___, highest peak in the Philippines 34 Ice cream shop

posting

35 With dispatch

37 Sports Illustrated’s 2019 Sportsperson of the Year

38 Early trials, informally

39 Patronizes, in a way

40 Stop responding

41 Singer/songwriter Folds

44 Smartens (up)

47 “This can’t be good”

48 Ostentatious display

50 One of 250,000 in 1937’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”