THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Loud, as a radio 7 What stars do 14 Repeatedly hit 15 Some petroleum 16 Play out, as events 17 “I wanna hear everything” 18 Pioneer in steam engines 20 Complete coverage? 21 Early people who used a base- 20 numerical system 22 Sorrowful cries 23 Rapper ___ Rhymes 24 What closes on Sundays? 25 Cut 27 Fun bit of trivia 32 ___ Tech ( former for- profit school) 33 Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Raisman 34 “Children of the Albatross” author 35 Vietnamese soup 36 Doesn’t snap 40 Billies 41 Packing ___ 42 They may have stained- glass windows 45 Playbill bit 46 Police line? 47 Cut 48 Internet in- jokes that have gone viral, in modern lingo 50 Individual’s unique use of language 52 How dishes are usually sold 54 Martial arts holds that are hard to escape 55 President Bartlet on “The West Wing” 56 One waiting for the captain? 57 Invites out for DOWN 1 ___- Bakr, longtime adviser to Muhammad 2 Any member of Saul’s tribe, in the Bible 3 Close friend of Hamilton, in “Hamilton” 4 Fighter of Ferocious Flea in 1960s cartoons 5 Hamilton and 3Down, in “Hamilton” 6 Quashes 7 “Absolutely unacceptable!” 8 Cartoonist Kelly 9 Breed 10 Travel from site to site? 11 Screwballs 12 Calculus calculation 13 Multi- time W. N. B. A. All- Star ___ Delle Donne 15 Be a homebody 19 Mary Jane 21 Zayn formerly of One Direction 23 “___ chance!” 25 Bud inducted into Cooperstown in 2017 26 Belts 28 Performs some light surgery? 29 Loss of a sound at the start of a word, as “opossum” to “possum” 30 Spot in the third balcony, say 31 Trespassing and defamation 37 Chemical compounds in so- called hospital smell 38 Poisons 39 1994 Jim Carrey comedy 42 2007 # 1 Alicia Keys album 43 Man of the cloth 44 Moves at a crawl? 46 Mexican bread 48 Art ___ 49 Goya subject 51 Alley- oop starter 53 Tennyson’s “You Ask Me, Why, ___ Ill at Ease”