The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Number pattern named after a 17th-century French mathematician

16 Teddies and such 17 Exhausted beyond belief 18 Certain acct. info

19 Diatribes

20 Longtime distributor of James

Bond movies

21 Immersed in

23 Business ___

24 Lot

25 Maipo Valley exports

27 Pings, maybe

28 ___ Gervasi, director of

2012’s “Hitchcock”

29 Union IDs, for a performer 31 Basic analysis?

32 Market debuts, in brief 33 Mini-___ (small retailer) 34 One way to manage

expectations

37 Eschew Uber, say

41 More steadfast

42 “For once maybe someone will call me ‘___,’ without adding, ‘You’re making a scene’”: Homer Simpson 43 ___ Player, first Black woman to become president of a four-year college

44 Taking off

45 Setting for “La Bohème” 47 Calm

48 Hominid

49 Some stylish suits 51 Measure of volume

52 Do some modeling

55 “Life is short. ___” (Jacques

Torres quip)

56 Captain’s phrase

DOWN

1 Two-person log cutters

2 Loss of smell

3 Biblical punishment

4 Loc. ___

5 Marcello, Rodolfo, Colline and Schaunard, dans “La Bohème” 6 Turpentine-yielding

conifer

7 Certain anti-inflammatory

medicines

8 Hymns of thanksgiving

9 Yelp reviewers, say 10 Shuffles and such

11 Rental units: Abbr.

12 “Don’t reckon so” 13 Reaction to a really bad pun 14 Stretches

15 Lean protein

22 Tenths, in statistics 24 Increased likelihood of extreme scenarios, in statistics

26 Taste

28 Mammal in the Soricidae

family

30 Spreadsheet specification 31 Golf Hall-of-Famer Se Ri ___ 33 Only M.L.B. team never to

have played in a World Series 34 National geographic books? 35 “Again …”

36 Small knapsack

37 Diatribes

38 Certain sports instructor 39 Whatever’s left

40 Works that may require leaps

of imagination?

42 Savory Indian pastry 45 Uninspired, as writing

46 Like the most recent Pope Paul among all popes named Paul

49 Seasoned

50 Jewelry store?

53 Canine protection org.? 54 Russian fighter jet