NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Number pattern named after a 17th-century French mathematician 16 Teddies and such
17 Exhausted beyond belief 18 Certain acct. info
19 Diatribes
20 Longtime distributor of James Bond movies
21 Immersed in
23 Business ___
24 Lot
25 Maipo Valley exports
27 Pings, maybe 28 ___ Gervasi, director of 2012’s “Hitchcock” 29 Union IDS, for a performer
31 Basic analysis? 32 Market debuts, in brief 33 Mini-___ (small retailer)
34 One way to manage expectations 37 Eschew Uber, say
41 More steadfast 42 “For once maybe someone will call me ‘___,’ without adding, ‘You’re making a scene’”: Homer Simpson 43 ___ Player, first Black woman to become president of a four-year college
44 Taking off 45 Setting for “La Bohème” 47 Calm
48 Hominid 49 Some stylish suits
51 Measure of volume 52 Do some modeling
55 “Life is short. ___” (Jacques Torres quip) 56 Captain’s phrase
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1 Two-person log cutters
2 Loss of smell 3 Biblical punishment 4 Loc. ___ 5 Marcello, Rodolfo, Colline and Schaunard, dans “La Bohème” 6 Turpentine yielding conifer 7 Certain antiinflammatory medicines 8 Hymns of thanksgiving 9 Yelp reviewers, say
10 Shuffles and such 11 Rental units: Abbr.
12 “Don’t reckon so”
13 Reaction to a really bad pun 14 Stretches
15 Lean protein 22 Tenths, in statistics 24 Increased likelihood of extreme scenarios, in statistics
26 Taste
28 Mammal in the Soricidae family 30 Spreadsheet specification 31 Golf Hall-offamer Se Ri ___ 33 Only M.L.B. team never to have played in a World Series 34 National geographic books?
35 “Again …”
36 Small knapsack 37 Diatribes
38 Certain sports instructor
39 Whatever’s left
40 Works that may require leaps of imagination?
42 Savory Indian pastry
45 Uninspired, as writing
46 Like the most recent Pope Paul among all popes named Paul
49 Seasoned 50 Jewelry store?
53 Canine protection org.?
54 Russian fighter jet