NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Twitter label for top hashtags
7 Relative of a histogram
15 Currency of Indonesia
16 Had a midday break
17 Tough nut to crack
18 Explanation for the existence of evil in God’s presence
19 Do without
20 Money, in slang
21 Care package sender, often 22 White House family of the early 20th century
23 Contest
24 Store window sign 25 Billion-dollar Procter & Gamble brand 26 Country album?
29 What a relief!
31 ___ kick
32 Yielding
33 Where BMW is headquartered 36 “Live well” sloganeer
37 Subject that encompasses net neutrality
39 Central to, with “of”
43 It comes to light
44 Put on display, with “out” 45 Product of transcription 46 Certain Afrocentrist, informally 47 One making a malicious attack, maybe 48 Pore over
50 Ditch
51 Zoo attraction
53 Capable of handling the task 54 Best-selling studio album of all time (33x platinum)
55 Hold tight
56 Something U and I have in common 57 Evans who was the 2009-10 N.B.A. Rookie of the Year
DOWN
1 Lullaby locale
2 Goes once around the track
3 It’s worse than a bomb
4 “Sweet dreams!”
5 Olivia de Havilland and Olivia Newtonjohn, for two
6 Playwright who wrote “All great truths begin as blasphemies”
7 Enemy of the Joker
8 Just behind
9 Dance done to fiddle music 10 Thrombus, more familiarly 11 Cabinet dept. that tracks homelessness 12 Savage
13 Sister brand of 7Up
14 Mint family members 23 Lightning unit
24 What can help you step up your workout routine?
26 Sail-hoisting device 27 Reservation
28 Princess in “The Crown”
30 Bread, in Bologna
33 Woman’s name that becomes another woman’s name when its vowels are switched
34 “Whew!” elicitor 35 Three-pointer?
37 Corn or bean plant, perhaps
38 Cry accompanying a double take 39 Attempts to hit
40 America’s Cup, e.g.
41 Until due
42 Need for teachers across the board 46 Left-facing arrow, in an email
48 Flat part of a flat
49 Extremely popular to a small fan base 50 Channel
52 For ___ (birthday card category)