The New York Times crossword puzzle

No. 1210

Across

1 Eye exam you need to pass?

9 Soaks (up)

13 Cricketer’s 100 run streaks

15 Weapon with a point d’arrêt

16 Where making a hasty exit is encouraged

18 Flour ground in a chakki

19 Pumped

20 The Father of ___, moniker for the inventor Leo Baekeland

22 Not as adventurous

23 Game that helps teach object permanence

24 Heads of staffs?

25 Pays someone back

26 Stephen of the Field Day Theatre Company

27 Spreads out in a bed?

28 G, in C

29 Exact hits

31 Passage in a cemetery

35 “___ dead, Jim”

36 [See fine print]

37 Mathematician Terence who won a Fields Medal at age 31

38 Rock-forming mineral that makes up over half of the earth’s crust

40 Big affair

41 Ejections

42 Necklace closure

43 Mug shot subject?

44 Mildred D. ___, author of “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry,” 1977

45 Like the habitat for camels

46 Became smitten

48 Plain protuberance

49 Evidence of one’s hang-ups?

50 Descriptor for gray-blond hair

51 They make waves for viewers

Down

1 Woe for winter travelers

2 Pull-off

3 Fighting

4 Preakness or Belmont

5 “All right!”

6 Rep

7 Word with pocket or bag

8 Website with adoptable virtual creatures

9 Icon for airplane passengers

10 Choice

11 Its symbol is WOOF on Nasdaq

12 Geographical heptad

14 Flat bottoms

17 Meets expectations, in a way

21 ___-faire

23 Sunday parking spots?

25 Develops hearing loss

27 Postpone

30 Let-theme-at-cake occasion?

31 Gate postings, briefly

32 Had a solo dinner “date”

33 Time to read the Haggadah

34 Machine that gives paper a smooth finish

36 Focused attention on

38 Foot ___

39 Whit

40 Move so as to evade detection, in a way

41 Jack rabbits, but not rabbits

42 Part of an epic verse

43 Bhikkhu’s teacher

44 Set askew

47 Head