The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Begin at the

beginning?

9 Fiery

15 Launch of April

1968

16 Set free

17 Staple of a barbershop shave

18 Onerous

19 Seed of a strawberry or sunflower

20 National bird of Trinidad and Tobago

22 Jules or Jim, in

“Jules et Jim”

23 “So ___!”

24 Two stars,

perhaps

25 Very old school 26 Milky Way maker 27 Mom and pop

business?

29 Half of a black

and tan

30 Danger for a

hiker

31 Fast-food order placed millions of times a day worldwide

32 Separate, as

strands of hair 34 It’s got teeth

37 Greyhound

destinations?

38 Drivel

39 O’Neill

contemporary

40 Take some

courses

41 Fitting coffee order on a submarine?

42 Ruin

43 Stopwatch ticks:

Abbr. 44 Reprimand

gruffly

45 Character of book and film who was born John Clayton III

47 Uranus or

Neptune

49 Number one

advocate?

50 Gothic architecture feature

51 Davy Jones’s locker, with “the”

52 Spot almost halfway through a course

DOWN

1 Epithet meaning

“great soul”

2 Momentous

3 Absent

4 Fixes

5 It’s all the same 6 Victor at

Brandywine

7 Forerunner in a

race?

8 Income for general expenses?

9 Skydivers’ aids 10 Bright camp

wear

11 Deli supply

12 Like the Golden

Horde 13 Koan

contemplator 14 Trim

21 Subservient sort 24 Running around with one’s hair on fire

25 Abbr. in a bibliographic citation

27 Kids, typically 28 Runs, for

instance

30 Runner’s place 31 Relative of a cod 32 Ship’s capacity 33 Physics class project testing impact safety 34 Refuse work? 35 One way to

look

36 “Are you kidding

me?!”

37 Passed the

dessert?

38 “___ Carey,” 9x platinum 1990 album

41 Bob who narrated “How I Met Your Mother”

43 Scout uniform

part

44 Lived

46 Bad spot

48 Staple of modern sci-fi movies, for short