NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Performance featuring masklike kumadori makeup
7 Dock ___, pitcher who claimed to have thrown a no-hitter on LSD in 1970
12 Place for some nonstarters
13 Currency that replaced the British West African pound
14 Common party store purchase
15 “Grazie ___!” (“Thank you so much!”)
16 Bring up
17 First word of Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”
19 Not forward
20 Put forward
21 “___ mair will the bonnie callants / Mairch tae war”: Hamish Henderson
22 “___ Nagila” (song of celebration)
23 Talk trashed?
24 Conversation piece?
27 With it
28 Action toys, perhaps?
29 At once
30 Unusual change
31 Sound often heard doubled
34 “Nothing to see here, folks ...”
35 “Later”
36 Fight club?
37 “We’re all ___ here. I’m ___. You’re ___”: Cheshire Cat
38 Event of 1/31/2020
40 Refuge
41 Schmuck
42 Like one with a spare tire
43 Many meetings, these days
45 Rapper/singer with the 2005 hit “Temperature”
47 Scratch
48 Clear
49 Having an itch
50 ___ Horn (British sheep breed)
DOWN
1 Civilization, to Freud
2 ___ B. Latimer, civil rights activist in the National Women’s Hall of Fame
3 They’re in circulation
4 Over
5 Scope
6 Yield of some scratch-off tickets
7 Furry monster of children’s TV
8 Accessory with a scent
9 Cute images with captions like “If it fits, I sits”
10 Gaga, say
11 “Later”
12 First-rate
14 Comedian who played Louie the Lilac on “Batman”
16 Pulpify
18 Altar exchange
21 Sister state?
22 Weather datum
25 Put to shame, say
26 Fake online followers
28 Cross
29 Pet, informally
30 Play music loudly and energetically
31 Stereotypical campaign promise
32 Big name in power tools
33 “What ___ Did” (classic children’s book with insects on the cover)
34 Strand
35 Lease signatory
36 Protegé maker
39 Currency in The Legend of Zelda
41 Like spent briquettes
42 Connect, as a Bluetooth device
44 Some vintage roadsters
46 Discontinued Mitsubishi sports sedan, informally