NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 “Get outta here!”
5 Casual cutoffs
15 Law force, slangily
16 Breakout entertainment?
17 Truth we hold to be self-evident? 18 Latest thing
19 Some low clouds
21 Tupper of Tupperware fame 22 Orange-soda-loving character of 1990s Nickelodeon
23 Big ’70s-’80s band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017 24 Start to go out
25 Point in a kitchen
26 Queen hit with the lyric “So don’t become some background noise” 29 Baker in a studio
30 Comment from the smitten
31 Kim ___-jung, recipient of the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize 32 Subterranean hideout in comics 33 Tries to nip
37 Sportsman whose #4 was retired 38 Powerful sedative
39 “We Need a Little Christmas” musical 41 Frustrating thing to open
42 ___ slaw
43 Female singer inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017 44 Withdrawal fig.
45 Director Lee
46 News ___ (media giant)
47 “I was right!”
50 Rodeo event
53 Indie singer ___ Case
54 “That is …”
55 Many a Generation Z member, now 56 Throwable weapons used by assassins 57 Time at a hotel
DOWN
1 15, 30 and 50 are common ones, in brief 2 Layer 3 Reward for an accelerated course, in brief
4 Line on a 1040
5 ___ knight
6 San Jose-to-San Antonio dir. 7 Figure that can describe a lot 8 Refrain syllables
9 What may be on the horizon?
10 Cad
11 Alexander ___, pioneer and early head of New York’s subway system 12 Mile-high player
13 Sign of availability
14 “You’re about to be photographed!” 20 “That ship has sailed”
24 Aspect of hydrodynamics 25 Weather
26 Tease
27 Drs.’ order?
28 C-Span focus: Abbr.
29 Language banned under Franco’s dictatorship
31 Cameron of Hollywood 33 Telephone, informally
34 Social media post that refers to another user without directly mentioning that person
35 Trouble
36 Ranch moniker
38 “What say, José?”
39 Friendly French term of address 40 Nelson ___, author of “The Man With the Golden Arm”
41 Mimic
42 Kind of fever
43 Parts of a Frankenstein costume 46 W.W.E. star John
47 See 52-Down
48 Store with a three-syllable name in four letters
49 High-class
51 Literally, “rule”
52 With 47-Down, some frequently misplaced items