NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Brings home 7 “Nah, thanks anyway” 14 Running freely 15 Typical wall

colors

17 One with key

responsibilities? 18 Oil, informally 19 Certain sorority

member

20 Who had a major part in the Torah? 21 Behavioral

quirk

22 One of the

Gilmore Girls 24 [Here we go

again …] 25 Titaness who

abducted Orion 26 Afghans, e.g. 28 Alternatives to

wings 30 Insubstantial 32 Grand total? 33 “Don’t let the

bedbugs bite!” 34 “The Magpie” and “The Wheat Field,” for two 35 “De dónde ___?” (Spanish 101 query) 36 Palindromic

term of address 39 It raised a major

red flag

40 Gene pool? 42 Awesome,

slangily 43 Worker whose name anagrams to the person’s output

47 No bueno 48 Portion of an ad agency’s budget 50 Specific

51 Brand with a red star in its logo

52 Spot for some

piercings 53 Back to back 54 Home to the world’s tallest steel arch bridge

Down

1 Repress, with

“up”

2 “Moving on …” 3 Gets to the

point?

4 Holst’s “The

Planets,” for one 5 “No need to worry,” informally

6 & 7 Disliking, or at least feeling indifferent about

8 Waste at a

winery 9 Sumptuous 10 Groups involved in class actions, for short?

11 ___ Technica (tech review site) 12 Bided one’s

time

13 Bit of deception 16 Investment

banker Samuel 20 Descriptor for a

superhero 23 Period immediately following Y2K 24 Would you look

at that! 27 Composer of many Streisand show tunes 28 Model-turnedTV personality Chrissy

29 Six figures, say 30 Hybrid zoo

animal 31 Wackadoodle 32 Who said “The greatest scientists are artists as well” 33 “Uh-uh”

34 Bed cover 36 Dark Lord of Mordor, in “The Lord of the Rings”

37 It’s just under a

foot

38 Passage that

connects stories 41 Put to sleep 43 Hasenpfeffer,

e.g.

44 ___ bar 45 They’re ahead

of their time 46 Leakes of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” 49 “What of it?” 50 “The World Is Yours” rapper, 1994