NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Differences between colors 12 Duchamp contemporary
15 “Well, what do you know?!” 16 Accessory for Miss Piggy 17 Six-time Grammy winner who
is half of the group Gnarls Barkley 18 Some buzzer followers, for short 19 End of a count?
20 Toil and trouble
21 MTV toon teen
23 Reebok rival
24 Most clipped
25 “Fiddler on the Roof” setting 28 Embarrassed
29 Net ___
30 Establish
31 Shorts go-with
32 Still vying
33 Bits of sweat
34 Offensive line
35 Natl. Library Card Sign-Up Month 36 Desktop accessories
37 Novelist Ephron
38 Course outline
40 Helen who helped establish the
46-Down
41 School copier, maybe
42 Minute Rice instruction
43 Like Mercury vis-à-vis Mars 44 Future reporter
45 Shepard of “Parenthood”
48 Darth Vader’s boyhood nickname 49 Type unprofessionally
52 Sleep study acronym 53 “Hallelujah!”
54 Change the locks?
55 “Brilliant!”
DOWN
1 Extensive
2 Reddit Q&A sessions, briefly
3 Circlers at airports
4 Oocyte, e.g.
5 Rest on, as chances
6 Register
7 Where Hercules slew the lion
8 Some Pontiacs
9 Night that “Friends” aired: Abbr. 10 Distant stars?
11 Led
12 Supercilious
13 Spit spot
14 Become legally certified
22 “My baby at my breast,” to Shakespeare’s Cleopatra
23 Boba ___, “Star Wars” bounty hunter
24 Sounds of failure
25 Leafy vegetable related to a beet 26 1974 Abba hit
27 Mazurka meter
28 Individually wrapped hotel amenities 30 Pelvis-patella connector
33 Member of the 1920s Murderers’ Row 34 Bout ender
36 Grounds for a 15-yard penalty
37 Tragic heroine of Irish legend 39 Muscle used in pull-ups, briefly 40 Sarah who hosted the podcast “Serial” 42 Support pieces
44 Saves or assists
45 Liter lead-in
46 See 40-Across
47 Classic Jaguars
50 D.O.D. division
51 , e.g.