The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Finishing-line cry?
6 Guinness with an Oscar 10 Thigh muscle, informally 14 Beginning to happen 15 Result of a normal
distribution
17 Tickets
18 Long ones can be measured
in centuries
19 Is short
20 “Fingers crossed!”
21 Recruit
23 Outbuilding that’s sometimes
converted into a dwelling 24 Capacious
25 Minds one’s own business 29 Things a mysophobe is afraid
of
30 Some bonds, for short
31 Tiny messenger
32 Ending with electro
33 Quack grass and others 34 Award quartet
35 “Wow!”
36 College figures
37 Onetime Swedish exports 38 Begins to believe 40 Extra-crispy, to put it nicely 41 IBM component: Abbr. 42 Midweek milestone
44 Crush cans, maybe
48 Give an edge to 49 Perseverance, e.g.
50 ___ Gandhi, longest-serving president of the Indian National Congress
51 In science fiction, suspended animation of a body at a very low temperature 52 Kind of office tray
53 Name written with an accent
in Irish English
54 Estimating words
55 Heading in a contract
DOWN
1 Some striped strips
2 Lead-in to some unsolicited
advice
3 Striking
4 Ends a vacation
5 Extra play opportunities, in
brief
6 Hoffman who wrote “Revolution for the Hell of It”
7 Island rings
8 National dogs of Norway 9 Flowering plant such as “old
man’s beard”
10 Participates in a bee, maybe 11 Language that’s mutually
intelligible with Hindi 12 Opposite of “sans” 13 Secretary, e.g.
16 Families and waves might
have them 20 Tongue-in-cheek 22 Quick notes, quickly 25 Good, in Guadalajara 26 Driver’s license designation 27 Mined compound in the
“Avatar” universe
28 Ink spots, for short
29 Lump
30 “Where’s the beef?”
inquirer?
33 Broke up a band, say 34 Modern meeting
aid for many
36 Greasy spoons
37 Word with dim
39 Nurses
40 Part of an urban fleet 42 Sofia’s husband
in “The Color Purple” 43 Poet who wrote “I have spread my dreams under your feet / Tread softly because you tread on my dreams”
44 Some pickups
45 Like a Buffalo nickel 46 Maisie Williams’s role on
“Game of Thrones” 47 Edges of a diamond? 50 Pose