CROSSWORD

NEW YORK TIMES

ACROSS

1 Piece of equipment at a rock concert

10 Abba who was born “Aubrey”

14 Commitment you sometimes can’t get out of?

16 Bats

17 DC Comics supervillain group 19 Celebrity

20 Composer Rachmaninoff 21 Coloration

22 “No bid”

24 Bazaar makeup 26 Beauty mark? 27 Engineer training centers

33 Major U.S. city with three pairs of double letters in its name 34 Went from place to place

35 Plane fare

36 One who copes by excessive snacking 37 Many cos. seek its approval

40 Children’s character who wears red-andwhite stripes

41 W.W. I battle site 43 “Black-ish” network 44 “Sure, I guess”

50 Lee side?

51 What opening offers often leave

54 Founder of Carthage, in myth

55 Spongy toy going up in popularity?

56 Big bunch

57 Low throw

DOWN

1 Work out 2 Common magnet feature 3 Unemotional sort, in slang

4 H. P. Lovecraft output 5 “Great” one in Africa 6 Rules, for short 7 Grammywinning artist India.___ 8 Make fast, in a way 9 Game with a 40-millimeter ball, informally

10 Days of yore, in days of yore

11 Cried dramatically

12 Not many

13 Easily cleaned, in adspeak

15 Homer’s beer supplier 18 You can hardly believe it

23 Stops, as an engine 25 Totally cheated 28 Merchant Samuel who lent his name to a historic island

29 “I Fall to Pieces” singer 30 Words with cow or ball

31 Screw over

32 Something ported at a portage

33 Like many a purchase weighed at a deli 34 Guidelines observed in sisterhood

35 Bubbling, say 36 Grasslands 37 Way out

38 Creditor, in financial jargon

39 They may be liquid 42 What’s always found in quotes?

45 Term of endearment 46 Easy things to dial on a rotary phone

47 “Ol’ Man River” composer Jerome 48 Letters on old film boxes

49 Duchess of ___ 52 Do some diamond cutting?

53 Corn site