NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Corresponds

7 Very much

11 Hot temper

14 Something often held underwater

15 Flummox

17 Flummox

18 Shakespeare, notably

19 Call of support

20 Grazer with a bushy beard

21 Joined forces (with)

22 South American arboreal snake

26 Laser tag equipment

27 Depictions of lands’ ups and downs

29 Seriously shortchange

32 Focal points of a debate

34 Offensive line

35 Mind

36 Brambles with edible purple fruit

39 Resting place

40 Uncompromising sorts

42 Small bouquet

43 Setting for Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”

45 Casts off

47 Weekly 90-min. TV show

48 Cowboys’ grp.

50 Word with room or system

52 Flummox … or a classic word game represented by the central grid of shaded squares, in which 15-, 17- and

55-Across can be found

55 Flummox

56 Nonchalant

57 No. after a no.

58 Drink sometimes served in a masu cup

59 Hits the roof

DOWN

1 “Sesame Street” Muppet with magical powers

2 Hug or kiss, maybe

3 Took a second?

4 Three-vowel French word that sounds like a fourth vowel

5 French connections

6 ___-wolf

7 “___ Ben Adhem” (Leigh Hunt poem)

8 “Dancing With the Stars” judge Goodman

9 Comes clean

10 Certain marketing gimmicks

11 Pensée

12 Liberal arts college in Portland, Ore.

13 Transgress

16 Former Fords

18 In a real mess

20 Runs out of water

23 Start of a count-off

24 Name that drops

“-jah”

25 Dumbbell curls build them, for short

26 Monthly utility

statement

28 Sound from a crib

29 Giving a boost

30 Unrefined material

31 Dangerous pellets

32 Rabble

33 Figure on a fiver

34 Winter exclamation

37 Photo lab request:

Abbr.

38 Singer Lana del ___

40 Surfer wannabes

41 Subordinate in the prosecutor’s office: Abbr.

42 Its flag has vertical stripes of redwhite-red

44 Key just above G

45 Glasses, informally

46 Weight

47 Old dagger

49 Collectible cartoon

frames

50 Award turned down by Alan Rickman: Abbr.

51 Variety

52 PRE-A.D.

53 Piece of equipment for certain summer Olympians

54 Atlanta sch.