THE NYT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 His name was lengthened by God at age 99
6 Theme in much Greek art
15 Beasts of the wild
16 Guru for hire
17 N.J. home of the “Ultimate Weapon” monument
18 The puck drops here
19 Like some explosions
21 Unwanted buildup
22 Syllable of faux rebuke
23 Group in many conspiracy theories
25 Its flag is dark blue, symbolizing an ocean
26 Calls
27 Character builder?
28 Masonrysupporting rod
29 One getting an across-theboard promotion?
30 Late-spring arrival
31 Some Winter Olympians 35 Mesoamerica n language with 400,000+ speakers
36 Emotional appeal
37 “___ arigato”
38 Hawthorne’s “___ Brand”
39 0.5, for 150°
40 Something made on one’s birthday
44 City famous for bad traffic?
45 Traveling show with the number “Trading Taps”
47 Half of a rhyming candy duo
48 First name in industrial design
49 Extremely
50 Cartoon friend of Dumb Donald and Weird Harold
53 “This Perfect Day” novelist, 1970
54 Underneath all the layers
55 Program with a “Get Ripped” version
56 “Benefit” of some “friends”
57 Cast wide
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1 Liaison
2 With 35Down, Korea in the 1950s or Iraq in the 2000s
3 Diesel who invented the diesel engine
4 Loathing
5 Popular pinup publication
6 Doc’s warm treatment
7 Mathematicia n with a hypothesis unproven since 1859
8 Worth heeding
9 Beijing-born star of “Kiss of the Dragon”
10 Didn’t get a return from
11 “… confirm ___ deny …”
12 Hold your horses
13 Dermatologica l drug withdrawn by Roche in 2009
14 Stump speeches, often
20 Ones with big butts
24 What’s going on
25 Marlin’s son, in an animated film
28 Take back, in a way
29 Cog, so to speak
30 Call of Duty fans, e.g.
31 General’s opposite
32 Form of Japanese syllabic writing
33 ___ foot
34 Indian alternative
35 See 2-Down
37 What “marriage is the chief cause of,” per Groucho Marx
39 They’ll stop traffic
40 Greet from a ways away, say
41 “How dare you!”
42 Journalist, informally
43 “Ea-a-asy, buddy!”
45 Common hero in American literature
46 Yo-yos
48 Film character who brings the snowman Olaf to life
51 Pac-12 sch.
52 Nickname on a cattle drive