N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Gray with the 3x platinum album “On How Life Is”
5 Sandwich shop purchases
10 Out to lunch
14 Fit for a sweater
15 Wellventilated
16 Golfer Aoki
17 “Hey, can I talk to you briefly?”
19 Pass up
20 Overprotective type
21 Mark of a swordsman?
22 Shakespearean production
23 Appreciates
24 Fast learner
26 One of four on Pluto
27 Small cardinal
28 Himalayan native
29 Declaration upon walking in the door
33 It might go over some students’ heads
34 Like many a password
35 Individual, for one: Abbr.
36 Source of Roquefort cheese
37 Legal, after “of”
38 Highest point
40 Blowout
42 Chemical suffix
45 Back
46 Seafood in shells
48 End notes
49 Ones set for a wild party?
50 Techfocused website
51 Support structure
52 Nobelist Wiesel
53 Lots and lots (of)
54 Gem
55 Vixen
DOWN
1 Source of igneous rock
2 Do ___ deed
3 Direction in a film script
4 “Right on!”
5 Query following an interruption
6 Company that makes Valium
7 Some decorative plants
8 Brown alternative
9 Cartoonist Hoff
10 What the Copacabana becomes at the end of
“Copacabana”
11 “Everybody says so”
12 OK to target
13 One-up
18 Bit on a bun
21 Calls attention to
24 Like some flotsam
25 Squeeze (out)
26 One of seven in 14th-century Avignon
27 Actress Polo
29 Is lost
30 Sound
31 Neighbor of Ill.
32 Give birth to
33 Obsolescent means of communication Civil War inits.
39 Summer annoyances
40 Character who steals from the dragon Smaug
41 Literary lion
42 Recurrent health scare
43 Passé, say
44 New Jersey county whose seat is Newark
46 Typical stocking stuffers
47 “Hello … I’m right here”
48 Hospital amts.
49 What Joe Biden and Al Gore are: Abbr.