n.Y. times crossword

ACROSS

1 Husky relatives 7 Like a virgin 13 Title setting for Shakespeare 14 Event with fiddling 15 Here and there 16 Riffraff

17 & 18 Desires 19 See 54-Across 20 Response to a burn or a pun 21 Jack ___ 23 Girth 24 Dismissive turndown 25 They may hold the solution 27 Profit chaser? 28 The last pair you’ll ever wear? 31 Where the magician hides the rabbit 33 Embarrassments for news agencies 35 Attained 38 Who once described puritanism as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy” 39 Contents of une fontaine 41 Not just passes 43 Piled leaves 44 Despot exiled in 1979 45 Bobby who co-founded the Black Panthers 47 Co-star of the “Thin Man” films 48 Idiots 49 Something the Netherlands has but Belgium doesn’t? 51 Certain religious proselytizer, informally 52 Pattern breaker 53 Faux gold 54 With 19-Across, spot for a tryst 55 Measure of military alertness

DOWN

1 Place of eternal happiness 2 Beat someone? 3 Cooking title 4 “Too bad!” 5 Jamaica’s St. ___ Bay 6 Bummed 7 Image on every carton of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream 8 Lead 9 “Ciao” 10 Pushover 11 Pull one’s hair out? 12 Eve who wrote “The Vagina Monologues” 14 “Balderdash!” 16 Recalls 18 Letter closing from one brother to another 21 Window: Ger. 22 Brought (out) 25 Brazilian city at the mouth of the Amazon 26 Take root 29 Nick, e.g. 30 ___ Canals 32 “Thirty days hath September …,” e.g. 34 Tied the knot 35 Container that’s almost always red 36 About 71% of la Tierra 37 What “I” am, in a kid’s song 40 Invisible 42 Say nasty things about 44 How shy people may stand 46 Bibliography abbr. 48 Common ___ 50 Word before and after “in” 51 Reddit V.I.P., for short