THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Lively dances in 2/4 time 7 Smallest country in mainland Africa 13 Had a fit? 15 Indian or Mexican 16 Frazzled commuter’s comment 17 One getting on 18 How someone may be interrupted 20 Country club figure 21 Language with a trilled “r” 22 Verb in the first telegraph message 23 They’re encouraged on a ketogenic diet 24 Encouraging words 25 Japanese stock holder 26 Lead-in to comic 27 “Super” thing in games, once 28 Force of nature? 30 Bit of belt-tightening 31 Longtime talk show host with a degree from Harvard 34 Ethnic group that makes up about 18% of the world’s population 37 Silly tricks 38 Ones on Telemundo 39 Athlete known as “The Black Pearl” 40 “What, will these hands ___ be clean?”: Lady Macbeth 41 Wee warbler 42 Luxurious Italian house 43 Abbr. for those who don’t like parties 44 Bisector of the Fertile Crescent 46 Road Runners’ race classification 48 Neighbor of an Austrian 49 Part of an oven 50 Money in the Bible 51 What’s left 52 Prepare to go

DOWN

1 Secretary of war to Taft, Roosevelt and Truman 2 First word of the Constitution after the preamble 3 Messes up 4 Wild things 5 Shop shapers 6 Any minute 7 Mean Miss of “The Wizard of Oz” 8 Second 9 Ed.’s inbox filler 10 Cameo 11 Resistance to change 12 Kind of can 14 Overhyped event, in slang 15 One who gets bent out of shape 19 Connecticut Yankee, e.g. 23 Pedal pushers 25 “Love ___” 26 Emulated Rumpelstiltskin 28 Hunter College is part of it, in brief 29 Summer coolers 30 Attorney general before Reno 31 Disbeliever’s question 32 Prelims 33 Is unobliged to 34 “My word!” 35 Chewy, in a way 36 Proximate 39 Dividing shrub 41 Toon with a middle initial 42 Drudge 44 List 45 Smeltery refuse 47 Nowhere to be found, for short