THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Hopes not to be called, say 7 Market figures 13 Came to an end 14 Harpers Ferry river 15 Storehouse 16 “Brace yourselves …” 17 Rock music? 19 Bunk 20 1963 western based on Larry McMurtry’s “Horseman, Pass By” 21 Prep before playing 22 Like a well-written thriller 23 Onetime Chicago Outfit establishment 27 Wallops 28 Many first graders 30 Heat shields, of a sort 31 Treatment 32 Boy Scouts founder Robert ___-Powell 33 Drivers in cabs 37 History course topics 38 Herring relative 39 Up-to-the-minute 40 Singer Winehouse 41 Druidic monument 45 Rafter connectors 47 Bird whose name means “golden” 48 Say repeatedly 49 Result of one too many misdeeds 50 Wagner’s Tristan and Parsifal, e.g. 51 Cynical responses

DOWN

1 American candy company since 1904 2 Beat soundly 3 Like a bed you’re in 4 It’s picked up in a mess 5 Roll up 6 Ophthalmological ailment 7 20th-century comedian who was known as “The Clown Prince of Denmark” 8 Runnin’ ___ (N.C.A.A. team) 9 Shriek of pain 10 Green valuables 11 Dishes that might be prepared in Crock-Pots 12 Sister brand of Ortho 14 Retro amusement center 16 Minds one’s place? 18 Doesn’t go out 22 Obsolescent online connection provider 24 Parts of a rambling oration 25 Popular Japanese beer 26 Fortune reader, maybe 27 Orange Free State founders 29 Enlarge, in a way 30 Gaza Strip guerrillas 31 Bread spread whose tagline is “Love it or hate it” 32 1983 Record of the Year 34 Added numbers? 35 Brush alternative 36 When people meters are used 38 Trading card figures 41 Brown 42 Ear parts 43 1979 revolution site 44 Tease relentlessly 46 Mate