The New York Times Crossword

No. 1104

ACROSS

1 Sources of wisdom

7 “Fear is ___. So are regrets”: Marilyn Monroe

13 Threaten

15 Slow-simmered stew of northwest Africa

16 Run-down

18 Island home of Odysseus

19 Acute … or the opposite of acute

20 They’ve got tickets to rides

22 Appropriate word found scrambled in “pedantic”

23 To be overseas?

24 What charges produce

25 Minced oath

26 Touch

27 Spring winds?

28 Performances most likely to cause sweaty palms

29 One ponying up for a deal?

31 Yo-yos, in a way

32 “No biggie”

33 Tricks

34 ___ deux vins (tipsy: Fr.)

35 Part of a mic check

38 They may be loose or tight

39 Square meal?

40 City nickname that includes

its state’s postal code

41 Paradise of the Beat Generation

42 When Macbeth says “Is this a dagger which I see before me …?”

43 People

44 Type leaning to the right

46 Take some hits

48 Strip

49 It’s a bad look

50 Went down the drain, say

51 Value

DOWN

1 Squirm

2 Secret code?

3 Blackjack starter

4 Pluck

5 Lemon or orange

6 Nurse

7 Moves

8 They get under one’s skin, informally

9 “Not again!”

10 Member of a “grand” trio?

11 Canine relative

12 War historian’s tally

14 “Ahhhh, bliss!”

17 It was introduced at the Olympics in 1988

21 “We should get going”

24 Squares

25 Never-seen title character

27 Ride ‘em, cowboy!

28 Title woman in a Beatles song

29 Winner of two consecutive Best Actor Oscars

30 Certain rocket engine

31 “Hansel and Gretel” setting

32 Like Goodwill goods

33 Live

35 Part of a disguise, maybe

36 Bronzes, say

37 Wallops

39 Kept in the loop, in a way

40 Line after “On a cold winter’s

night that was so deep”?

42 Second

43 Snowmobile base

45Italian pronoun that becomes a name by adding -gi

47 Some bank deposits