The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Turnovers on a football field, maybe? 11 Chicken soup and eucalyptus oil, for two 13 Extreme

challenges 15 Use

16 Rings

18 Big blows 19 Measure of

inflation: Abbr. 22 Military acronym first used in W.W. II 23 Like the expensive stuff, often

24 Inflated

25 Like archaeological finds, typically 26 Musical unit 27 Ones at the bar for a few drafts? 29 National security adviser under Obama 30 Report on a

match 33 “Just a sec,” in

texts

36 General starting point? 37 Periodic table

no.

38 What goes to

pot?

39 Richard ___, longtime chief foreign correspondent for 46-Down 40 001-01-0001,

for one: Abbr. 41 Red dot in the middle of the forehead 42 Rang up 44 Pan-fried dishes served to commemorate the Miracle of the Oil 45 Academic

umbrella 49 Members of one’s chosen family 50 Places to find

faults

Down

1 Heroic piece of

writing 2 Wasn’t in a

hurry

3 Some new job requirements, in jargon 4 Long shot in

sports

5 Make one 6 Kaiser’s grp. 7 Mind reading,

in brief? 8 Snorri’s

story

9 Game with rolling and bluffing 10 Court in a courtyard, perhaps 11 Something one can pay for free 12 Subject of the 1787 Connecticut Compromise 13 “L’Absinthe”

painter

14 Like the

leeward side 17 Heady stuff? 19 Hats originating in Ecuador, despite their name

20 Some seals 21 ___ hair 24 Glass for

cerveza 27 Finds, and fast 28 Dryer

detritus 29 Feature of a

work boot 30 Like some cakes and games

31 Fad suffix 32 Sue Grafton Memorial Award and others

33 Nuts or

bananas 34 Parts of some

contracts 35 Paradise

38 One who usually works an evening shift 41 Come clean? 43 Subject of a museum in St. Petersburg, Fla. 44 Mikhail Baryshnikov, by birth

46 RCA spinoff 47 Dr. ___ 48 Chaney who was known as “The Man of a Thousand Faces”