NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Bands popular in the ’70s

10 Uses a letter opener

on

15 Later on, when

appropriate

16 “The Pirates of

Penzance” ingénue 17 Is resolute 18 Grammy winner with the surname Adkins 19 National ___ Hall of Fame, in Rochester, N.Y.

20 Flip, say

21 Esther of TV’S “Good Times” 22 “Breaking Bad” protagonist 23 Offer sheet? 25 Refresh, in a way 28 “Quit your bickering!”

29 Left on deck 30 Reached the point of no return? 33 Like many Ariz. residents

34 Fraught with risk 35 Gubernatorial option 36 Snow-capped peak of song 38 Yellowstone traffic halters

39 One going paperless in April, say

40 Gags 41 Once-common mall fixtures

43 Nut chewed as a stimulant 44 Harshly colorful

45 Certain computer key 47 Face-covering dance move 50 Star N.F.L. receiver ___ Beckham Jr. 51 “Stoned Soul Picnic” songwriter 53 Counterpart of butch 54 Language in which “Hello, how are you?” is “Saluton, kiel vi fartas?”

55 Its penultimate line is “Poems are made by fools like me” 56 Franchise with the “Dominating the Deep” DVD set

DOWN

1 Sight in a produce aisle

2 “I’m ___ you!” 3 Danny ___ , ventriloquist dummy for Jimmy Nelson 4 Pressure over a debt 5 Second or third version

6 “Life ___” (2014 Roger Ebert documentary) 7 Pester playfully 8 Finance co. rebranded as Ally Financial

9 Branch of mathematics that uses“”and“” 10 Brain

11 Classic film that gave us the term “paparazzi” 12 “Pretty sure” 13 Restless movements, maybe 14 Unwelcome forecast

22 “I … I can’t even” 24 Like presses 25 Certain paddy crop 26 Car with a lightning bolt logo 27 French dessert of soft custard 28 Patch growth 30 Things that generate a lot of cookie dough? 31 Early educator of George Orwell

32 Dijon denials 34 Course division 37 Some airplane seats 38 Fortification 40 Traditional wedding vow word

41 Up

42 Showing less refinement 43 Gene who’s considered “the founding father of the modern drum set”

46 Far from deliberate 47 10 micronewtons 48 Museo contents 49 Enter into a calendar 52 “Thanks anyway, pardner”