NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 One of a trio in

a children’s story 9 Bar order after a very hard day, maybe 15 Lacking any

sides 16 Puffin relative 17 Haggard 18 Prize at the top

of a maypole 19 Mixing and

matching? 21 Start of many a

dance routine 22 Suffix with

market 23 Large fern 25 Renegade and Renaissance, to the Secret Service 29 Things bench

players need? 30 Pandemonium 31 Sackers in the sack of Rome, A. D. 410 34 Think tank, e. g.:

Abbr. 35 Spent 36 Hotel amenity 37 Treats as in “South Park” or “Doonesbury” 39 Drift 40 During 41 Viciously criticizes, informally 42 Clothing company whose mail- order catalog debuted in 1905 44 It lacks letters on a telephone keypad 45 ___ cannon

( sci- fi weapon) 46 Trattoria entree 52 Saggy and

crinkled 54 Following the

beat? 55 Fidelity

competitor 56 Toddler’s

handful 57 Spy group 58 Green- light

Down

1 Traps and yaps 2 Like some rabbit

ears 3 Certain dam 4 Worrisome marks in high school? 5 Source of buyer’s

remorse 6 Whittles away 7 Battling 8 Torn 9 Huge stock purchase at the start of a day’s trading 10 Shorts popular in the 1920s and ’ 30s 11 It might be picked for a song 12 “The Great” magician whose signature trick was the “floating light bulb” 13 River of myth where one drinks to forget 14 ___ Edwards, John Wayne’s role in “The Searchers,” 1956 20 Birds in

hieroglyphics 24 Cask maker 25 Eastern ties 26 Eric of “Hulk” 27 Dry sorts 28 What isn’t

working? 29 Lab vessel 31 Hungarian

hunting dog 32 Tough 33 Some photog

purchases 35 Innocent 38 Ancient collection of Sanskrit hymns 39 Rehabilitative

effort 41 Quick 42 Dog command 43 ___- Novo ( capital on the Gulf of Guinea) 44 “___ cum pretio” (“Everything has its price”) 47 Parenthetical

figure, often 48 Hot compress

target, perhaps 49 Parenthetical

figures? 50 Vulgarian 51 Brand with a Gravy Cravers line 53 Announcement

carriers, for short