THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Timetested

8 Being tried

13 Pouring one’s heart out at a coffeehouse?

15 Lead female role on Netflix’s “House of Cards”

16 Sweepstakes exhortation

17 Radiance, in England

18 Exhibit flexibility

19 Biting words?

21 Descend upon en masse

22 “What is ___?”

23 Wearer of an “H” inscribed hat

24 Snapchat’s ghost, e.g.

25 Pluto, to Saturn

26 Home to the Museum of El Greco

27 Lieutenant of 1970s TV

28 “___ Fancy has been quelled”: Longfellow

29 Awesome successes

31 Attempt to establish an online connection

34 What some caddies carry

35 The ___ Store

36 Smoother, now

37 Muchmimicked entertainer

39 Budgeter’s concern

42 Dodgers’ pursuers

43 Like HU-M-O-U-R

44 Monastery head

45 1950s song syllable

46 Major port near the Persian Gulf

47 Sticks in the mud

48 Maker of hospital cuts

50 Airport monitor

52 Hardwired

53 Words next to an X

54 Heavens

55 Key

DOWN

1 Slip preventers

2 Shore line?

3 Reach

4 Manual sequence

5 Rockefeller Center muralist

6 Actor Hunter or singer Hunter

7 Sports stick

8 Application to a cut

9 U. 2’s?

10 Cartoon avatars on Snapchat

11 Confident to a fault

12 Some athletic footwear

14 Certain social media notifications

15 Big role for Liz Taylor

20 Bistro offering

23 Fail to be

24 Big-box store founded in 1946

26 Seminary study

27 Singleserve coffee holders

28 Sports caster Rich

30 Cry of exasperation

31 Bit of sports fan paraphernalia

32 Show for which Laurie Metcalf won three Emmys

33 Ocean areas

34 Does not disturb

38 Competitor of Mt. Olive

39 Drive like hell

40 Ankh holding deity

41 Baby blue, e.g.

43 Be adequate for

44 Word before or after green

46 Over and under, e.g.

47 Michael who directed “The Insider”

49 Fire

51 Sensitive conversation topic