The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Turnovers on a football field,

maybe?

11 Chicken soup and eucalyptus

oil, for two

13 Extreme challenges

15 Use

16 Rings

18 Big blows

19 Measure of inflation: Abbr. 22 Military acronym first used in

W.W. II

23 Like the expensive stuff, often 24 Inflated

25 Like archaeological finds,

typically

26 Musical unit

27 Ones at the bar for a few

drafts?

29 National security adviser

under Obama

30 Report on a match

33 “Just a sec,” in texts 36 General starting point? 37 Periodic table no.

38 What goes to pot?

39 Richard ___, longtime chief foreign correspondent for 46Down

40 001-01-0001, for one: Abbr. 41 Red dot in the middle of the

forehead

42 Rang up

44 Pan-fried dishes served to commemorate the Miracle of the Oil 45 Academic umbrella 49 Members of one’s chosen

family

50 Places to find faults

DOWN

1 Heroic piece of writing 2 Wasn’t in a hurry

3 Some new job requirements,

in jargon

4 Long shot in sports

5 Make one

6 Kaiser’s grp.

7 Mind reading, in brief? 8 Snorri’s story

9 Game with rolling and

bluffing

10 Court in a courtyard, perhaps 11 Something one can pay for

free

12 Subject of the 1787 Connecticut Compromise

13 “L’Absinthe” painter

14 Like the leeward side 17 Heady stuff? 19 Hats originating in Ecuador,

despite their name

20 Some seals

21 ___ hair

24 Glass for cerveza

27 Finds, and fast

28 Dryer detritus

29 Feature of a work boot 30 Like some cakes and games 31 Fad suffix

32 Sue Grafton Memorial Award

and others

33 Nuts or bananas

34 Parts of some contracts 35 Paradise

38 One who usually works an

evening shift

41 Come clean?

43 Subject of a museum in St.

Petersburg, Fla.

44 Mikhail Baryshnikov, by birth 46 RCA spinoff

47 Dr. ___

48 Chaney who was known as “The Man of a Thousand Faces”