The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Alternatives to strollers 11 Stumpers? 15 Repetitive farewell from “The Sound of Music” 16 Place 17 Show around the area? 18 Word from the Latin for “seaweed” 19 Swam with the fishes, say 20 Prominent instrument in raga music 21 Put on ___ 22 Creek relative 24 It was launched on the same day as Windows 95 25 Proud, passionate type, supposedly 28 Downturn 29 Rapper ___ Khalifa 30 Blarney stone? 33 Problems resulting from a poor paternal relationship 34 Simple business, frankly speaking? 35 Trick
36 It comes before long
37 Main antagonist in “Toy Story” 38 Bit 41 Causing change 44 Former Spice Girl Halliwell 45 ___ Falls, N.Y. 46 Auction figures 50 Emmy-winning newsman Roger 51 Seller of shooting equipment 52 Saucony competitor 53 Spitball, e.g. 54 Tammany Hall cartoonist 55 Elite operative, for short
Down
1 Aromatic resin 2 Studmuffin 3 Two-pointed hat worn by Napoleon
4 All these ___ … 5 Show signs of a sore loser 6 Spike 7 Subject of devotion 8 Frasier’s brother on “Frasier” 9 Scientists who measure the exact shape and size of Earth 10 Big ___ 11 Everyday 12 Houston and Dallas, historically 13 Passport or driver’s license 14 International soccer star Luis ___ 20 First name in psychoanalysis 23 People of southern Kenya 25 Equipment found in warehouse stores 26 Author Welty 27 Places to go out and have a gas? 30 Excess 31 Trash-talk 32 Massive resource: Abbr. 33 What Hawaii has that Alaska lacks? 34 Extremely, informally 35 Comedian 38 Expert on bugs 39 Shaded ring 40 Drive away 42 Stop by 43 Titular misanthrope in a Shakespeare play 44 Hearts 47 Already: Fr. 48 “Go back” button abbr. on some remotes 49 Off-color 51 Computer hardware inits.