N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Cut along the grain 7 Collection of offers? 13 “Them” 15 Component of ants on a log 16 Flash setting 18 Who shot Mr. Burns on the classic TV episode “Who Shot Mr. Burns?” 19 Lowly sorts, in pirate lingo 21 Goes so-o-o slowly 22 ___ orange 23 Unenthused response 24 A.P.R.lowering option 25 Really digging 26 Mesoamerican language family with about half a million speakers 28 Sites of sudden admissions, for short 29 A pop 30 Carolers’ wear 31 Middledistance options on fairways 32 The ___ Five, nickname for the “Queer Eye” cast 35 Flip 36 Political commentator Perino 37 Non-nons? 38 Onetime airer of “Music City Tonight” 39 Multitudes 40 Kind of mold 41 Producers of sharp increases in height? 43 Score marking to play higher or lower than written 45 Summer carnival treat 46 One pile of laundry 47 “What are you waiting for?!” 48 Ostracized group in the Bible 49 ___ March (annual event since 2017)

DOWN

1 Band with the 1974 hit “Come and Get Your Love” 2 Bucktooth, e.g. 3 Student body activity? 4 Polluted, in a way 5 Novelist Bender 6 Small dam 7 Channel that airs many B&W films 8 Passenger car attachments 9 Some Prado masterpieces 10 Groupie 11 Etymology, for example 12 Rewards for regularseason winners, maybe 14 Racket pros 17 Mike and Carol Brady, on “The Brady Bunch” 20 Putting in a tight spot 26 ___ cards (ESP testing items) 27 Slangy sedative 29 Covers, as a pothole 30 Hiss 31 Strike that’s barely struck 32 Unfair trick 33 ___ Dolohov, one of the Death Eaters in Harry Potter books 34 Relatives of bloodhounds 35 Author who popularized the demon Mephistopheles 36 Counterpart of a brickand-mortar business 39 Strictly uphold 40 Prominent part of a bloodhound 42 Early movie mogul Marcus 44 Behind