Montreal Gazette

NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

- EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ

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)

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