The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS 1 Rim coating, at times 5 2018 Stanley Cup champs, to fans
9 Nudges
13 Styling substance
15 ___ button
16 Put on, despite the put-off? 17 It travels from D.C. to Boston in about seven hours 18 Liner recliner
19 Seeped
21 “You ___ worry”
22 Bring about, as confusion 23 Angle
24 Targets of social reform
25 Monopoly card with property info
28 Factor in the price of paper towels
29 Sign at a museum exhibit, maybe
30 Home of Florida Atlantic University 31 Singer/songwriter with the 2008 top 5 album “We Sing. We Dance.
We Steal Things.”
32 Word that goes before and after “after”
35 Cared
36 Enchanting sort
37 Bulk purchase at the post office
38 Mars, to Jupiter
39 More morose
41 Betty who sang “The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss)” 43 Opens the door for, say 44 Something you wouldn’t use your hands to touch 45 What has a large following on a college campus? 48 Double shifts at work, e.g. 49 Deterrent to getting a credit card
50 “Ahh”
51 Russian lead-in to -evich or -evna 52 Pennsylvania county or its seat DOWN 1 Theatergoer’s reproof 2 Small battery type
3 How ballet dancers move 4 Baldness is the result of losing them 5 Countrywide, say
6 What to do if you’d like a hand
7 Snap
8 Miss Beadle of
“Little House on the Prairie,” e.g.
9 Like the era that began in the early 1600s
10 Some infant wear 11 Republic of ___, theocratic setting of “The Handmaid’s Tale”
12 A lot 14 Matching
15 Baker’s Joy alternative 20 Chinese menu descriptor
21 Winter air quality
22 He’s “waiting in the sky” in a classic David Bowie song
26 “Pfft, how hard could it be?!” 27 Regular guest on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” 29 Part of a plane 3.0 31 Miss-taken identity? 32 Italian playwright who won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature 33 Nonbinary, in a way 34 “___ out!”
35 Things that go “Bang!” 36 Jacked
37 ___ Center, home of the Denver Nuggets 40 Stew thickener
42 Pair of overalls? 43 Disney character who sings “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?” 46 Walk-___
47 Audible “OMG!”