NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Former British colony whose national flag includes the Union Jack

5 It might slowly grow on

you

10 Be hot and bothered

14 Freshly

15 Like Venus vis-à-vis

Serena Williams

16 Part of YOLO 17 Putdown to a klutz, in

dated slang

20 They're open to change 21 From which we get

“Hakuna matata” 22 Politician's platform 23 Drags

24 The drinks are on me!

27 Maximally neat 29 Opera daughter of

Amonasro

30 Green sort

32 Shot

33 Selfish demand

34 Part of a cup

37 Sea that's fed by the

Jordan River

38 Big name in sandals 39 One in a state of

disbelief

42 Bigwig in the

admissions dept.? 44 Like some

enemies 45 Devil-may-care 46 Member of high

society?

49 He wrote “All good things are wild and free”

52 “Let me be frank …” 54 Writer who founded

Objectivism

55 Striped cat

56 Author of the six-book

poem “Fasti”

57 They move around in

orbits

58 Knocks dead

59 Like casting Michael Keaton in “Birdman” as an actor who used to play a superhero

DOWN

1 Unfading

2 Flying

3 What makes you question everything you know?

4 Literally, “sulfur island” 5 See 25-Down

6 Eugene O'neill's “Desire Under the ___” 7 Big scene

8 Races, in a way

9 Acted sketchy? 10 Shelter from attack 11 As opposed to

12 Runs up and down? 13 Like policies prohibited by Title IX 18 Leave stunned, in a

way

19 Go for a bite, say

24 Be up

25 With 5-Down, Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in atomic theory 26 Ill-suited

27 Dwarf planet between

Mars and Jupiter 28 Dawn

31 Jazz great Evans 33 Central part of town:

Abbr.

34 It's not your fault

35 “Oh, just stop!” 36 Something to shoot for 37 Kicking and screaming,

often

38 Russian ___ (iconic restaurant near New York's Central Park) 39 Have a target 40 Involving a give-and

take

41 Scorcher

43 Projecting front 47 Many fire dept.

members, by training 48 Mideast capital

49 Big purveyor of frozen

desserts

50 Cries for attention

51 Certification letters 53 L.A. and N.Y.C. are each represented in it twice