The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Blue print?

7 Water wings, for example 13 Toasted treat

15 Japanese for “teacher” 16 Skating expos

18 Bearing

19 Paragon

20 Suck up, in a way

22 Author of “The Kitchen God’s

Wife” (1991)

23 There’s no coming back from

this

26 Initialism that might have a

ring to it?

27 1000 hrs.

28 Scale notes

29 Agent of immunity

31 “Did I just hear him say

that?!”

34 Principle indicating

“No second chances” 35 Outer border for 36-Across 36 See-through items 37 Two-time Olympic gymnast

Raisman

38 Male’s name hidden

backward in this clue 42 Barely make, with “out” 43 Whet bar?

45 Make lace

46 Longtime Disney chief

Michael

47 Big ___

48 Hair holders

50 Descriptor for a champion 53 Half-page, perhaps 54 Fatherly tips, to use a

portmanteau coinage 55 Decks with major and minor

arcana

56 Lean against

DOWN

1 Turn-on for a bartender? 2 Big epoch for mammals 3 Hypothetical missing links 4 Chain parts: Abbr.

5 “This is the life!”

6 Lacking literary sparkle 7 Setting for a shot 8 Historic kingdom of Spain 9 Most populous Canadian

prov.

10 So to speak

11 Sound

12 Traffic light

14 Some social media backand-forths

17 Short relationship

21 One who loves to bring up

the past 24 Surfer girl

25 Doctors

29 Poet who wrote

“A Child’s Christmas in Wales”

30 Firmly bond

32 Court

33 “___ Carter III” (best-selling

Lil Wayne album)

34 Napa excursion

35 Fictional African country of

film

36 Took care of a dog or cat,

maybe

39 “Alrighty then”

40 “Romanian Rhapsodies”

composer

41 Like the days following Mardi

Gras

43 Cruxes

44 Gloomy, poetically

46 Sub text, maybe

49 Hawaiian fish also called the

wahoo

51 Juice suffix

52 Some Best Buy buys