NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Really busy

7 Ban from argument

13 Greasers’ loves

15 According to schedule

16 Bar bowlful

18 Banana Republic’s parent company 19 Either of two extremes in an orbit 20 CD follower

22 Symbol of change, in math

23 Picks

24 Pick

26 First pope to be called “the Great” 27 Jr. and sr.

28 City license once needed to work in an

establishment serving alcohol 30 Photogenic, informally

31 Get all twisted up

32 Itches

33 Part of what makes you you

35 Decline

36 Stock letters

39 Ancient city rediscovered in 1870 40 Blackballs

41 Royal Catherine

42 “Duck ___” (classic Warner Bros.

short)

44 Its business is booming

45 Nerve

46 Expired

48 Term of respect in old westerns 50 Wrap up

51 Loan specification

52 Boil

53 Piano trio? DOWN

1 “Hummina hummina!”

2 Onetime Ebert partner

3 Sources of some tremors

4 “Mrs. ___ Goes to Paris” (Paul Gallico novel)

5 A bushelful

6 See 7-Down

7 With 6-Down, what may follow Indiana or Illinois

8 Like the best streams?

9 Protection from a shark, maybe

10 Bad things to blow

11 Like valentines

12 Settled

14 Party flasher

17 Up to this point

21 Source of guiding principles

24 Ova, e.g.

25 Becomes settled in a new environment 28 Speleologist

29 Minds

30 Make more palatable

31 Give up

33 Material

34 Style of Southern hip-hop

35 Things drawn by eccentric people 36 Home to the ancient Zapotec civilization 37 Like opposing groups on “Survivor” 38 Inches

41 Not natural

43 Strain of potent marijuana

45 Speck

47 Plain white ___

49 Plan out