Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 What a physiognomist studies 6 Palma’s island 13 Christopher Paolini best seller
15 Hope was once
its driving force 16 Sluggishness 18 Act
19 “Well done!” 21 Something with “three deuces and a four-speed” in a 1964 hit 22 30, on a table 23 God
24 Golfer
Mickelson 25 Dryish
27 ___ facie
(legal phrase) 28 Former Ecuadorean “dollars” 29 London or
Manchester 30 Chicken
characteristic 31 Charles of “Hill
Street Blues” 32 ___ stick 35 Measure of data transfer speed, for short
37 With nothing
on top 38 Touchy
subject 40 Successor to
Churchill 41 Noted blind
mathematician 42 Noted boxing family 44 Blackguard 45 Alliance of groups against a common enemy 47 Measures of
sharpness 49 One-named singer with the 2016 #1 album “A Seat at the Table”
50 Parts of pit
crews 51 Throw a bomb 52 “You don’t have
to explain” 53 Like an eisteddfod festival
Down
1 Hernando’s
“happy”
2 A Musketeer 3 Foxes, e.g. 4 Croissan’wich
alternative 5 Make more powerful, with “up” 6 Rumpled 7 Bloom that’s often white or lavender 8 1940 Fonda
role 9 N.H.L. Eastern Conference team, on scoreboards 10 Camp out in the wilderness, say
11 2/2, in music 12 Pertaining to
colored rings 14 Field work 17 Parent, e.g. 20 Does some
runs
24 Annual June
celebration 26 Strand during a
storm, maybe 27 Stuck-up sort 29 Newfoundland or golden retriever
31 Staff additions 32 Spell out 33 Nickname for baseball’s Orlando Hernández 34 Shakespearean
fencer
35 Leave in a
hurry 36 Fast-food icon, with “the” 38 Neighbor of
Allemagne 39 Hints 41 ___-deux 43 Curry of the
N.B.A.
45 A smartphone has lots of them
46 Go smoothly 48 Country music’s Mike ___