NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Abundant
6 “___ and Basie!” (1963 jazz album)
10 Calendar heading named for a Norse deity: Abbr.
13 “Everything’s going to be fine”
14 Bucolic spots
15 Artist colony in a desert
16 Digital color presentation?
18 Vegetable also called “ladies’ fingers”
19 Seriously
20 Colon or semicolon, in an emoticon
21 “Men in Black” antagonists
22 Long run?
23 Bonny ones
25 ___ Explorer
26 Something that may be packed
28 Heckerling who directed “Look Who’s Talking” and “Clueless”
29 Courtroom conclusion
32 Comment after an amazing statement
33 What might be found between X and Z?
34 Small amphibian
35 Subj. for class cut-ups?
36 Direction of many a lavatory on a plane
37 One-fourth of KISS
39 Olympic skater Midori
40 ___ Chang, Harry Potter’s first love interest
43 1982 Disney film with a 2010 sequel
44 Kitty food?
47 It covers a lot of ground
48 “Walk”
49 Endor native
50 Spirits of Greece
51 Like a tapestry
52 ___ Sarnoff, Warner Bros. C.E.O. beginning in 2019
53 Participated in a pistol duel
54 They’re full of opinions
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1 Helicopter traffic reporter on “The Simpsons”
2 Intended
3 Bends at the Bolshoi
4 [I forgot the words …]
5 Local alternative
6 Actress Pompeo of “Grey’s Anatomy”
7 Adornments sometimes made with kukui nuts
8 Hold up
9 Vapers don’t get it
10 Tries chai, say
11 Quartet in Revelation
12 Nation conspicuously missing from the Wilson proposed League of Nations, in brief
15 Santa’s sleighful
17 How you might count to five
20 Dining with one’s child?
23 Countertop or flooring materials
24 Children’s author/ illustrator Hoff
25 Problem for a king
26 Cry made while swinging a baton
27 “Put a tiger in your tank” sloganeer
29 Roman army leader
30 Cellphone plan concern
31 Card game in which jacks are the top four trumps
32 Got out of Dodge, say
33 Some kitchen
appliances
38 Tennessee governor who became president
39 “Say no more”
40 Herb often used in preparing potatoes and omelets
41 Upped
42 Is on first
44 Really come down
45 Move, maybe ominously
46 Take to another dimension?
47 Lead-in to cow or lion
48 Uranus, e.g.