The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across 1 Genre akin to indie rock 7 Fellow 12 Co-organizer of the 1970 Women’s Strike for Equality 14 Modern topic in race relations 15 Sci-fi natives of the planet Kashyyyk 16 Little monsters 17 Programming keyword 18 Longtime TV tavern 20 To whom Durocher was referring when he said “Nice guys finish last”
22 Little wriggler 23 Wise one 26 Go through the roof 27 Where bows may be made 28 It’s described as fine and flake-like in Exodus 29 Piece of glib journalism often written under a tight deadline 32 Theatrical hybrid 34 Insect that’s born pregnant
35 8, e.g.
37 “Are you blind, ump?,” e.g. 38 Course on courses, for short 39 Tearing up, say 42 Tolkien’s Prancing Pony, for one
43 3, 4, 5 and occasionally more 44 Opposite of doddery 45 Quite off 47 Lover of history? 51 Field in which a helmet and gloves are often worn 53 Award-winning Cartoon Network series with Finn the Human and Jake the Dog 54 Repeated lyric in the Who’s “Tommy” 55 Twist and turn
Down 1 Uniform 2 “There’s not a ___ can do” 3 Word with family or Christmas 4 Main, say 5 Sculler 6 Wave function denoter in quantum mechanics 7 Some Vietnam War protests 8 Disney’s “___ & Stitch” 9 Corresponding exactly
10 Frat party stunt 11 Suffix in linguistics 12 Popular word game 13 Soap box? 14 Bolt (down) 15 Like Tom Thumb 19 Wired 21 What someone may be holding while waiting 23 Kind of roe 24 What had a double standard in the Bible?
25 Try to win 26 Uniform 27 Ruckus 28 Fashion designer Ecko 29 Traveler to a certain 27-Across 30 Request at the dentist’s 31 “How dare they!” 33 Regret 36 “Apologies” 38 Rushed 39 Rush
40 Red ___ 41 Red ___ 43 Cut back 44 Snail trail 46 Paragraph in the newspaper, say
48 Look the wrong way? 49 Subject of a cellphone cap 50 Move like a fairy 51 Biological duct 52 Palooka