NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
1 Finishing-line cry? 6 Guinness with an Oscar
10 Thigh muscle, informally 14 Beginning to happen
15 Result of a normal distribution 17 Tickets
18 Long ones can be measured in centuries
19 Is short
20 “Fingers crossed!” 21 Recruit 23 Outbuilding that’s sometimes converted into a dwelling 24 Capacious 25 Minds one’s own business
29 Things a mysophobe is afraid of
30 Some bonds, for short
31 Tiny messenger 32 Ending with electro33 Quack grass and others
34 Award quartet 35 “Wow!”
36 College figures 37 Onetime Swedish exports
38 Begins to believe 40 Extra-crispy, to put it nicely
41 IBM component: Abbr. 42 Midweek milestone 44 Crush cans, maybe 48 Give an edge to 49 Perseverance, e.g. 50 ___ Gandhi, longestserving president of the Indian National Congress
51 In science fiction, suspended animation of a body at a very low temperature
52 Kind of office tray 53 Name written with an accent in Irish English 54 Estimating words 55 Heading in a
contract
DOWN
1 Some striped strips 2 Lead-in to some unsolicited advice 3 Striking
4 Ends a vacation 5 Extra play opportunities, in brief
6 Hoffman who wrote “Revolution for the Hell of It” 7 Island rings 8 National dogs of Norway
9 Flowering plant such as “old man’s beard” 10 Participates in a bee, maybe 11 Language that’s mutually intelligible with Hindi 12 Opposite of “sans” 13 Secretary, e.g. 16 Families and waves
might have them 20 Tongue-in-cheek 22 Quick notes, quickly 25 Good, in
Guadalajara 26 Driver’s license
designation 27 Mined compound in the “Avatar” universe
28 Ink spots, for short 29 Lump
30 “Where’s the beef?”
inquirer?
33 Broke up a band,
say
34 Modern meeting
aid for many 36 Greasy spoons 37 Word with dim 39 Nurses
40 Part of an urban
fleet
42 Sofia’s husband in
“The Color Purple” 43 Poet who wrote “I have spread my dreams under your feet / Tread softly because you tread on my dreams”
44 Some pickups 45 Like a Buffalo
nickel
46 Maisie Williams’s role on “Game of Thrones”
47 Edges of a
diamond?
50 Pose