Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Qt. and gal.
5 Letting in a little light, perhaps
9 Org. at the center of modern “name, image and likeness” legislation
13 Surname on a 2010 “True Grit” poster
14 Home of a massive flock
17 “Oh, our sides are hurting!”
18 In great demand
19 Makeup kit for a summer look
21 No neophyte
22 Left with nothing
23 Subject of the 2018 bestselling account “On Desperate Ground”
26 ___ fly
27 2010 Atlantic hurricane that was the largest up to that time
28 Close one 29 Poetic contraction
30 What a ganzfeld experiment tests for
31 Homoerotic viewing
33 “That’s quite enough!”
36 Actress Claire of “The Crown”
37 “Ni ___” (Mandarin greeting) 38 Metaphor for a 100-degree day
39 “___, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere”: G. K. Chesterton
40 Upgrade for a train passenger
42 Deadlock
45 Have a drink, old-style
46 Really risked it 49 Start of many a party
50 Join (up)
52 Common dorm accommodation 53 Post hoc, ___ propter hoc (logical fallacy) 54 Cause of lightheadedness?
55 Sister brand of Guess? and Calvin Klein
56 File type
Down
1 Patella neighbor, in brief
2 Some parenting websites
3 Tragic downfall?
4 Buttinsky
5 E-commerce alternative to Square or Stripe
6 Grand ___
7 Bio lab supply 8 Beat poet?
9 Genre popularized by Limp Bizkit and Korn
10 Star journalist?
11 Not quite right
12 Riz ___, Emmy winner for 2016’s “The Night Of”
15 Squeeze
16 Holds the door for, say
20 150-year-old org. that filed for bankruptcy in 2021
21 Merle Haggard tune “___ From Muskogee”
24 Custom
25 Leading character
29 Force behind many disinformation campaigns
31 Started fuming
32 Stroke, perhaps
33 What might be next to cue cards
34 Humans, in scifi slang
35 About
36 Stereotypical kegger attendee
38 Traveler around the world
39 Like some sleeping problems
40 Aid in breaching castle walls
41 Kind of change
42 “Wouldn’t that be nice”
43 Anime genre featuring giant robots
44 Made the case against?
47 “All right, we get it!”
48 Strip lighting
51 Mess of hair