NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across 1 Hit FX police drama of 2002-08 10 Songs sailors sing 12 Children’s classic with the line “It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer” 14 Brilliance 15 Big exports of Sri Lanka 17 Pet sounds 18 Exploits 22 Toss about 23 Sound made while sinking into a hot tub 24 Niña accompanier 26 Hatcher of plots?

27 On the topic of 28 “Nothing’s broken” 30 Final Four airer in even years 31 Unit of light 33 Attractive,

colloquially 34 Word seen 11 times in the opening line of “A Tale of Two Cities”

35 Place to buy a

16-Down 37 Goof

38 Ones in funny shorts 39 Crop grown in paddies 40 Chap

43 In which you might see an exchange of bishops 44 Something a Mao suit lacks 45 Big nights 47 Get a second opinion from 48 Winner of the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 54 Union busters? 55 Ones on a diet

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1 Printing samples 2 Title creature in an Aesop fable 3 Subj. of many an after-school class 4 Japanese instrument with 17 bamboo pipes

5 It may be measured in gallons 6 Defensive football stat: Abbr.

7 Verb after vous 8 Jobs for speech

coaches 9 Clinton of

politics 10 Street food prepared on a rotisserie 11 Aces up one’s sleeve, so to speak

12 Tidy

13 Stock in a brewery 14 Service launched on April Fool’s Day in 2004 16 Sweet treat depicted in this puzzle’s grid 18 Reuters competitor 19 Wallis ___, Time magazine’s first Woman of the Year (1936) 20 Really hot, in slang 21 Didn’t lie completely still, say

25 Non-pros 29 Center of the symbol of the Illuminati 32 Minor annoying issues

36 “Yo” follower 39 Gets to the point? 40 NSFW 41 Benefit 42 Look (into) 44 Jimmy, for one 46 Painful proceeding 47 It might be taken to the pound 49 Comedian Shaffir 50 Includes, in a way

51 Base of kabayaki 52 Pool facility 53 Part of an exchange