NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

in 13 15 1 7 Lively 2/4 Smallest country Had Indian time a dances fit? or in mainland Africa

16 Mexican Frazzled commuter’s comment 17 One getting on 18 How someone may be interrupted 20 Country club

figure 21 Language with a trilled “r”

22 Verb in the first telegraph message 23 They’re encouraged on a ketogenic diet 24 Encouraging

words 25 Japanese stock

holder

26 Lead-in to

comic 27 “Super” thing in

games, once

28 Force of

nature?

30 Bit of belttightening

31 Longtime talk show host with a degree from

Harvard 34 37 Ethnic that up of population Silly the about tricks makes world’s group 18% 38 39 Ones Telemundo as Athlete “The on Black known 40 Pearl” “What, these hands will

___ Lady be Macbeth clean?”: 41 Wee warbler 42 Luxurious Italian house 43 Abbr. for those who don’t like

parties 44 Bisector of the Fertile Crescent 46 Road Runners’ race classification 48 Neighbor of an Austrian 49 Part of an oven 50 Money in the Bible 51 What’s left 52 Prepare to go

Down

1 Secretary of war to Taft, Roosevelt and Truman

2 First word of the Constitution after the preamble 3 Messes up 4 Wild things 5 Shop shapers 6 Any minute 7 Mean Miss of “The Wizard of Oz”

8 Second

9 Ed.’s inbox filler 10 Cameo 11 Resistance to

change

12 Kind of can 14 Overhyped

event, in slang 15 One who gets bent out of shape 19 Connecticut

Yankee, e.g. 23 Pedal pushers 25 “Love ___” 26 Emulated

Rumpelstiltskin 28 Hunter College is part of it, in brief

29 Summer

coolers 30 Attorney general before Reno 31 Disbeliever’s

question 32 Prelims

33 Is unobliged to 34 “My word!” 35 Chewy, in a

way 36 Proximate 39 Dividing shrub 41 Toon with a

middle initial 42 Drudge

44 List

45 Smeltery

refuse 47 Nowhere to be

found, for short