The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across 1 Blogs, social media and other nontraditional outlets 12 Enlightened responses 15 Option when changing jobs 16 ___ Irvin, early cartoonist/ designer for The New Yorker

17 Dirt spreader 18 Roam (about) 19 Winter Olympics sights 20 Italian sculptor ___ Lorenzo Bernini 21 Section of a Crayola box 22 ___ talk 23 Campaign supporters 24 ___ Park 25 Words of explanation 27 Pennsylvania city where the Delaware and Lehigh Rivers meet 28 Exhibiting a modern form of obsession 31 Quick way to end a sentence? 32 “Where does it all end?” argument 33 Socket for setting a gem 34 Food preservers 35 “Any ___?” 36 Dolphinfish, informally 38 Flavor additive, in brief

41 It goes clockwise or counterclockwise depending on the hemisphere 42 Legend says it arose on Palatine Hill 43 Search for prey 45 ___-con 46 Offshore waves? 48 Grade of wine 49 Projecting beams on a bridge 50 Cornerstone abbr. 51 Reading and writing, for most jobs

Down 1 Guinness Book adjective 2 “Go, me!” 3 Of renown 4 Stepped 5 Start of a start of a menu?

6 The Liberty Tree, for one 7 Ad agency specialist 8 Picker-upper 9 Fuel for planes 10 Follower of four or six, but not five 11 Mess up 12 Containing silver 13 Without deliberation 14 Breakup tune 21 Forwards 23 Little squealer 24 Hollande’s successor as president of France 25 Factor in Billboard rankings 26 Buster of myths 27 Latin list ender 28 Extricated from a jam 29 Reason 30 Concept of beauty 31 Slow and steady types 32 Prestigious academic journal 36 When cock-a-doodle-doos are done 37 Italian known for pulling strings? 38 Paradigm 39 Ice cream choice

40 Part of a makeup kit 42 Org. fighting copyright infringement 43 Like very early education, for short

44 ___ Shankar, influence on George Harrison 46 Chemical contaminant, for short 47 High ways?