NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Many opera villains, traditionally

7 Top-notch

13 Latin for “last”

14 Clipper’s bounty

15 Political subject of the 2018 memoir “Nino and Me”

16 Thieves who targeted pedestrians, in historic parlance

17 Some futuristic personal transports

19 Piddling amount

20 Square

21 Suss (out)

22 Dance move done in a prone position, with “the”

23 Sports bar fixture, in brief

25 Like some tests

27 Time for selfcare

29 Half sister of Meredith Grey on “Grey’s Anatomy”

30 Prepare to put in storage, in a way

31 Worked steadily at

32 Folds

33 Kvetches

34 Opening day?

36 Some neighborhood mischief, informally

40 Choice for checkout

41 First coed and racially integrated college in the South

43 Old concert halls

44 ___ mission

45 Branch of study that challenges heteronormativity

47 Some client arrangements

49 Grounds

50 Temperature units in physics

51 Has the stomach for

52 Like a Lothario

53 Complimentary

Down

1 Apple quantity

2 Spot to curl up with a book, maybe

3 Fended (off )

4 Art form accompanied by a theater organ

5 Title that shares an etymology with “admiral”

6 Onetime Scandinavian exports

7 Family man?

8 Monotonies

9 Starter, for short

10 Help out, informally

11 Sign

12 “So many ___. So little know” (proverb)

14 Vacation destination in the Ionian Sea

16 ___ cakes (cupcakes, in the U.K.)

18 Coming upnext

22 Is windy, perhaps

24 Makes cross

26 Bit of deception

28 Unwanted discovery under the bed

30 Clingy type?

31 Fake person

32 Church part near the altar

33 Certain zebras

34 Attire for Count Dracula and Doctor Strange

35 Gets with

37 Overexcited volunteer’s response

38 Whim-whams

39 Superlatively buoyant

42 Universal self of Hinduism

45 Pepper with questions, say

46 ___ bag (purse type)

48 Monthly releases?