The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Text ___

6 No bull

market?

15 Mr. or Mrs.

Right?

16 Like some

sodas 17 “Another Suitcase in Another Hall” musical 18 Little Orphan Annie feature 19 Concern of “three strikes” laws

21 Hollow 22 Home to Dyess

Air Force base

23 Avian epithet for Napoleon II, with “the” 25 Certain flu vaccine medium 28 Echo preceder 29 Mob pieces 30 Cleaves

32 And many times in France?

33 Has a fit,

maybe? 34 Queen ___ 37 Class for an English major, familiarly 38 Home of Triple-A baseball’s Aces 39 Only poisonous

snake in Britain 42 Coffee-growing region of Hawaii

44 Ones hanging around a haunted house? 46 Street sweep? 47 Golden rice and

others, in brief 48 Sitcom mother portrayer of 1987-97 and (on a different show) 2002-05 51 Hides who

one is

53 Ocho preceder 54 Achieved green efficiency? 55 Like some

monologues 56 FedEx Office

competitor 57 Places in

brackets

Down 1 Toy package

info

2 Old TV show set on the Pacific Princess, with “The” 3 Homer and others 4 Fixes, as a shower stall

5 Masonry and others 6 Know-it-all, in Britspeak 7 Powerful car

engine

8 Sorts frequently given detention 9 Terse

denial

10 “___ regrets?” 11 Haulers on

runners 12 Mobile greeting 13 To fix this you need to get cracking! 14 Coin whose name means “small weight” 20 To some extent

24 City where, according to legend, Cain and Abel are buried 26 “Don’t be ___” (words of caution) 27 “Darn tootin’” 31 Pre-cell? 33 Begin to

give out 34 Rhyming nickname for wrestling Hall-of-Famer Okerlund 35 Booted out 36 Paintbrushes for applying spots and blotches 37 Ferdinand de ___, developer of the Suez Canal

38 “Use it or lose it” sloganeer 39 Whites

40 D, on a

cornerstone 41 Mulligan 43 Black currant

liqueur 45 Relative of a

stingray

49 ___ Oper (historic concert hall in Frankfurt, Germany) 50 Even

52 “How’s it

hangin’?”