N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Opera style using everyday events rather than myth

8 Less than required 10 Something drawn for sport

12 Pro

13 Home to sedges and reeds

14 Those: Sp.

16 Rawboned

17 National ___ Day (March

16 observance, appropriate to this puzzle)

18 It has a lot of competition on TV

20 CtrlShift-___ (shortcut for a force-quit)

21 Common recipient of an erroneous apostrophe

22 Fly

23 “Yikes!”

24 Product whose package has a splash of milk

26 Good name for a financial adviser

27 Title setting for a Hemingway novel, with “the”

28 Basketball Hall-of-Famer nicknamed “The Answer”

30 Little drink

31 When many workdays begin

33 Wish one could

35 League standings format

36 Situated away from the point of origin

37 Possibly not even that

39 1909 Physics Nobelist for radio communications

40 Research complex in Bethesda, Md.

41 Aromatic flower from China

43 Annual hoops event, for short

44 Put on

46 Strain to recall?

47 Princess in L. Frank Baum books

48 Not pro

49 Collection at the entrance to a mosque

50 Rivers of New York City

51 Some census info

52 G, in the key of C

DOWN

1 Wedding words

2 H

3 Jousting venue, informally

4 Tab key, e.g.

5 Dastards

6 Wall: Fr.

7 “Puss in Boots” villain

8 You name it

9 Bad place for a long run

10 Like

17-Across

11 Home for some famous

17-Acrosses, informally

12 People who do not eat meat but do eat fish

15 Representation of one’s personality in the natural world

16 Tonywinning actress for “Miss Saigon”

19 Kind of ice cream

24 Manages

25 Opposite of returnable

28 Like xenon

29 Like la nuit

32 Wedding words

34 Foreign policy advisory grp.

38 Per

39 Noted Marilyn Monroe feature

42 Pal of Piglet

45 Put the kibosh on

47 Brunch beverages, informally