The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Food Network host ___ Brown
6 Channel owned by Paramount, for short
9 Sharp
14 Got excited over the newest video game release, say
16 Sanskrit for “force”
17 Stone-faced sorts?
18 Adams with a Presidential Medal of Freedom
19 “In that case …”
20 Rapper with the 2012 #1 album “Life Is Good”
21 Discounted
22 The corner of one is called a canthus
23 Form of some soaps
24 Most popular baby boy’s name of the 2000s 25 Disaster
29 City parks and plazas, say
32 Sound from a saxophone
33 _ _ _ Yello (drink)
34 Daybreak?
35 The late Mrs. Flanders on “The Simpsons”
36 Alice ___, 20thcentury women’s suffrage activist
37 Commence
39 Trademark difference-maker
41 Tears up
42 Succeed, as a suggestion
43 Eponymous Belgian town
46 Work periods
48 Agcy. within the Dept. of Transportation
49 Light up?
50 Was committed
51 “Phooey!”
53 Biopharmaceutical giant in the Fortune 200
54 Rhyming assent
55 Inventor of the first commercially successful steel plow
56 Montgomery of jazz
57 Bids one club, say
DOWN
1 Longhorn’s longtime rival
2 Like many salads
3 Abrupt
4 Indie band whose name is a twoword command
5 Prefix with -plasm
6 Building installations that work with beams
7 Choices for painters
8 They’re even at the start, in brief
9 Outside ___
10 Malicious programs that block file access
11 “Wow, would you look at that!”
12 Silverstein who wrote the words and music for Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue”
13 Lager descriptor
15 Ball of energy
21 Non fruit ingredients in some healthful smoothies
23 Pro ___
24 Some adventures in the Serengeti
25 Place where employees may all be holding together?
26 Assessors of verbal reasoning, in brief
27 Word with bright or blind
28 Winter Olympics sight
29 Calls balls, say
30 Gather
31 Range mentioned in “Take Me Home, Country Roads”
35 Department store eponym
37 Traipses (about)
38 First Southeastern Conference school to field an African American athlete
40 Say a prayer, maybe
43 Business interest
44 Name on 2008 campaign stickers
45 City east of Montpellier
46 Roe source
47 Unlike a mustang
48 Charlatan
49 “Oh, you flatter me!”
51 Index since 1896, with “the”
52 One way to say “yes”