N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Drink every last drop from

8 Give a sop to, maybe

15 Was naturally a part of something 16 Street protester or Tibetan monk 17 Duds 18 Largest of the British Virgin Islands

19 Bad vibrations 20 Things picked up on beaches 21 Pipe filler 23 Epoch when modern mammals arose

24 “See you then”

25 Soft leathers 26 Like bodybuilders’ arms

27 Fruity and fragrant compounds 29 Ending with many fruit names 30 Competitor of Century

21 31 Marijuana, in older slang 34 Be in charge of

36 Subjects of baseless charges? 38 Food that’s cured 41 Dangers for swimmers 43 Benchmark test for British students 44 1960s catchphrase 45 Young hares 47 Takes stock? 48 21st-century health menace 49 Millinery items 50 Source of running water

51 Chanel fragrance with a

French name

52 S.R.O.

53 Units in a horse race

DOWN

1 Mourn, in a way

2 Cold

3 Hynde of the Pretenders 4 Bob of old children’s TV 5 Theater portmanteau 6 It had a major part in the Bible 7 N.F.L. stat: Abbr.

8 Official proceedings 9 Call on a hot line?

10 British sitting room

11 Draws in 12 Made up (for)

13 Sister of Helios 14 Gets the lead out

20 What are depicted in some blue prints? 22 Knight mare? 28 Jungle herbivore 30 Chewed out 31 Personal agenda 32 Desperate hour

33 Judges 34 “Here, try this” 35 Title for a retired professor 36 Had plateful after plateful 37 Animal hunted in “Lord of the Flies”

38 Site of a western gunfight 39 Thirdlargest city of the later Ottoman Empire, surpassed only by Constantinople and Cairo

40 Duties

42 Fur

46 Cough syrup amts. 49 Daughter of Loki, in Norse myth