NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Rummage sale 7 Billing partner 13 Turn on, say 14 Bummer 15 Surrounds 16 Where to see the aurora borealis 17 Planet, poetically 18 Kindergarten math lesson

20 Its exterior is the edible mold Penicillium candidum 21 Towers

23 Break up

25 Series of ages 26 Bird’s long-ago relative, informally 27 “___ traditional …” 28 Strength 30 Contributed

33 DC figures 35 Manhattan neighborhood between the East Village and Chinatown 37 Goodbye

40 Wait for

41 Cross

43 Base ___ 44 “Corner-of-thestreet” poet 46 One way of playing things

47 Setting for many Manet paintings of the bourgeoisie 49 Lean on

BABY BLUES

BALDO

B.C.

BEETLE BAILEY

BLONDIE

DUSTIN 51 ___-choice

52 Many members of Wyoming’s Wind River Reservation 54 Jean on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

56 Small shooter 57 Esoteric

58 Socks, once, for Bill and Hillary Clinton 59 ___ Allende, author of “The House of the Spirits”

DOWN

1 Magician’s cry 2 Kind of barometer that doesn’t use liquid

3 Ice machines 4 Gymgoer’s pride

5 Something to assume

6 Tear

7 Short-legged dog 8 Possess ... or totally destroy

9 La-di-da sort 10 Actress Gina of “Suits”

11 Difference between a well-dressed bicyclist and a poorly dressed unicyclist, in a joke 12 Nuke, say

14 Luke Skywalker sold his in Mos Eisley 16 Things that often

have ribbons 19 Periodic Atacama

occurrence

22 Space station

section 24 Fortunetelling tool 27 Caught in ___

29 Full of passion 31 Yves Saint Laurent

perfume since 1977 32 ___ Luyendyk Jr., former bachelor on “The Bachelor” 34 Polysomnography

facility

36 Beginning of a

timeline

37 Where capture the flag is often played

38 Term of affection 39 One might keep you

up at night 42 Gardening tool 45 Bygone messaging service

46 Franchise with the most victories in N.F.L. history 48 Word before

tale or fail 50 Beverage flavored with cardamom 53 Obama health law,

for short 55 Electronics co. that once owned Random House