N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 When St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated 9 Side with? 13 First two-time Nobelist 15 Deep red pigment 16 Slice, e.g. 17 Place for a big wheel 18 Company that launched the game FarmVille 19 Insignificant one 21 A lot of Top 40 music 22 Space race? 24 Word with mother or sharp 26 Call of the wild? 27 One spewing obscenities 31 Wine container 32 Things with pods 33 Ingredient in a Caesar cocktail 34 Like the hepatitis BandC pathogens 36 LinkedIn listing 39 Be openminded, maybe 40 Trigger-to-cylinder connection 41 Kept close to one’s chest? 42 Twain of note 44 Hellenic character 45 Make no effort to stop something 49 Make right 50 Bad way to get to work 52 Extra leaf in some books 54 Freshly 55 Curling and rugby, but not boxing, in the Olympics 56 Hard to get around, say 57 Radio option with improved sound quality

DOWN

1 Title girl in a 1961 Ricky Nelson hit 2 Resident of Isfahan 3 Home run, in slang 4 Actress Boone of NBC’s “The Blacklist” 5 Nickname for a pal 6 Feature of many a jalopy 7 The bird in Hitchcock’s “The Birds” 8 Palm, in away 9 “That’s the spot!” 10 Woe of a bar habitué 11 Some high points of Mötley Crüe? 12 Relative of tofu 13 ___ Effect (supposed I.Q. boost from music) 14 Opposite of 22-Across 20 Pulpy refuse 23 Coconuts, to a maroon on an island, maybe 25 Fourth little piggy’s share 28 Macho type 29 Greenskinned fruit 30 Reject 32 Chaps 33 D.C. body 34 Native of Thimphu 35 Tied up, in the operating room 36 Witty Garofalo 37 Because of 38 Barbershop assortment 39 Something you may lay down or break 40 Baby 43 Not just fling 46 Forbidden, in a way 47 First name in horror 48 Vegetables high in vitamin C 51 Pecorino cheese source 53 Holiday abroad