The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Clear, as the deck

5 Nuts (over)

9 Some office workers on “Mad Men”

11 Greek god of the winds 13 Literary profile

16 Speed

17 Links things? 18 Romance novelist Roberts 19 Woman’s name that means “life”

20 Vitamin supplement brand 22 Bud

23 It forms at the mouth 25 Majors in acting

26 Not be stuck in one’s ways 28 Close ones

31 Be a bad winner

32 Home where the heart is? 33 Pinball player’s undoing 36 Is blessed with

37 Flood

38 Title locale for a Hemingway novel, with “the”

40 Tide competitor

41 Sews up

42 Strain

43 Woman’s name in English that’s a man’s name in Catalan

45 What a “R-r-r-ring!” in the kitchen signifies

46 Slips, e.g. 54 Person with no one to play with

55 Names

DOWN

1 Worker in Albany or Sacramento, say

2 “Now ___ talking!” 3 Tokyo-based carrier 4 Game played on a 90-footlong court

5 Painter’s mixture 6 “Peachy!”

7 A stream might run through it 8 Hose and belt sellers 9 Bald-faced

10 Joey Dee’s backup group in 1960s pop, with “the” 11 One who might grade on the curve?

12 Rows

13 Street ___

14 Western New York natives 15 Discontinue

20 Choke

21 Faint prints, in detective work

24 27 Like Member Wookiees of the South Asian diaspora

29 One of the Wayans brothers 30 Classic western hero who says “A man has to be what he is, Joey. Can’t break the mold”

33 Nails for kites

34 Word on a French wine bottle 35 Like bad, bad Leroy Brown vis-à-vis a junkyard dog, in song 36 Mideast traveler, of a sort 39 Double or triple feat in the Olympics

44 View from Memphis 45 “Nuts!”

47 Challenge for a barber 48 “The Problem With ___” (2017 documentary) 49 Annual three-day celebration 50 Tide competitor

51 In the back

52 Luau offering

53 Backing