N.Y. 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 gowith 32 Still vying 33 Bits of sweat 34 Offensive line 35 Natl. Library Card SignUp 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 Pelvispatella 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.