new york times crossword
ACROSS
1 Gang member associated with the color blue 5 Powerful ray 10 Sorority letters 14 Advanced 15 Spinning 16 “I’m so sorry” 17 Marie who married at 14 19 Bean town? 20 Painting of a bouquet, e.g. 21 Israeli P.M. between Netanyahu and Sharon 22 With assurance 23 Make deep cuts in 25 Caesarean section? 26 Easy-to-eat, in a way 27 Wyoming town that’s home to the Buffalo Bill Museum 28 Relatives of tails 29 Steamy place 30 Rapping 31 Switzerland’s ___ de Neuchâtel 34 Something a lawyer might make 35 Something that’s “free” (although that’s debatable) 36 They’re hard to beat 39 Can’t not 40 Head case, so to speak 41 Rich cakes 42 Man with ___ 43 Ship-to-ship communication 45 Courts 46 Dead ringers? 47 Best Picture before “12 Years a Slave” 48 Contradict 49 Olympic racer 50 Texter’s valediction 51 Does nothing 52 Spy
DOWN
1 Makeup of a high school reading list 2 Mall authority figure 3 Palestinian uprising 4 Astronomer with a geocentric model of the universe 5 Macho 6 “Whose woods these ___ …”: Frost 7 Modern invitation to hook up 8 Chats
9 A bitter pull to swallow? 10 Guiding light 11 Full-bodied red
12 Joint tenant? 13 Gouged 18 Latin pronoun 21 Stupefy 24 Moth repellent 26 Ended a phone call? 28 King of Cups, e.g.
30 Sing about? 31 “Hey!” 32 Hannah Montana, for one 33 Narrowly spaced 34 Protection from harmful rays 35 “Eight Elvises” and “Sixteen Jackies” 36 Really annoy
37 Bit of news 38 Panegyric 39 Ice planet in “The Empire Strikes Back” 41 Pecks, in a way 44 Role for a young Ron Howard 46 Spy grp.