NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Baseball who was great the subject the 2006 of best seller “Game of Shadows” 6 Authorize, as a

digital contract 11 Takes heat from 13 Political figure who became a CNN commentator in 2015

15 Won back 16 Advance showing of a film 18 Annoying

bedmate

20 “___ doomed!”

21 Subject of an overnight lab study

23 D.O.T. branch

24 Right now

26 Winner of the lowest-scoring

Super Bowl in

N.F.L. history

(16 total points)

30 Overindulge

31 :(

32 Pool party?

34 Word before

bait or buzz

35 Certain grain

source

36 Hot wheels?

39 Boston skyscraper, with “the” 40 They’re spotted at fire stations 45 “___ so” (“Nuh-uh”) 47 Classic baby food 49 Like Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo 51 Many a yak herder 52 Gymnast Biles and others 53 “License to Kill” star 54 Big name in hosiery 55 Longtime film/ theater critic Jeffrey

Down

1 Start of many a morning commute, informally 2 Some firstyears after undergrad

3 ___ astrology, study with horoscopes 4 Means of

surveillance 5 Go to pot? 6 Potential

recidivists 7 Classic blazer

fabrics

8 Ending with

quart- or quint- 9 Developed 10 “I’m fine, but

thanks” 12 Nonbeliever 13 Part of a

fireplace 14 Disturbed 17 Literary

anthology 19 Squaw Valley

backdrop 22 Backing 25 Wasted word to

a housecat 26 Turnovers, e.g. 27 Group working on P.S.A. campaigns 28 Big name in

cookware 29 Stood on the hind legs, with “up”

31 Product made

with steel wool 32 Dark-skinned grape used in winemaking 33 Locale of London’s Leicester Square

35 Abu Simbel

statue honoree 37 Activity for new

parents 38 Percussionist’s

wooden sticks 41 As good as it

gets

42 Try to get in,

say 43 “Suh-weet!,”

quaintly

44 Do business? 46 Proctor’s

declaration 48 Septet in Dante’s “Purgatorio” 50 Lose crispness,

in dialect