The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Time-tested

8 Being tried

13 Pouring one’s heart out at a coffeehouse?

15 Lead female role on Netflix’s “House of Cards” 16 Sweepstakes

exhortation

17 Radiance, in

England

18 Exhibit flexibility 19 Biting words?

21 Descend upon

en masse

22 “What is ___?” 23 Wearer of an

“H”-inscribed hat 24 Snapchat’s

ghost, e.g.

25 Pluto, to Saturn 26 Home to the Museum of El Greco

27 Lieutenant of

1970s TV

28 “___ Fancy has been quelled”: Longfellow

29 Awesome

successes

31 Attempt to establish an online connection

34 What some

caddies carry

35 The ___ Store

36 Smoother, now 37 Much-mimicked

entertainer

39 Budgeter’s

concern

42 Dodgers’

pursuers

43 Like H-U-M-O-U-R 44 Monastery head 45 1950s song

syllable

46 Major port near

the Persian Gulf 47 Sticks in the mud 48 Maker of hospital

cuts

50 Airport monitor 52 Hard-wired

53 Words next

toanX

54 Heavens

55 Key

DOWN

1 Slip preventers 2 Shore line?

3 Reach 4 Manual

sequence

5 Rockefeller

Center muralist 6 Actor Hunter or

singer Hunter

7 Sports stick

8 Application

to a cut

9 U. 2’s?

10 Cartoon avatars

on Snapchat

11 Confident to a

fault

12 Some athletic

footwear

14 Certain social media notifications 15 Big role for 34 Does not disturb

Liz Taylor 38 Competitor of 20 Bistro offering Mt. Olive

23 Fail to be 39 Drive like hell 24 Big-box store 40 Ankh-holding

founded in 1946 deity

26 Seminary study 41 Baby blue, e.g. 27 Single-serve 43 Be adequate for

coffee holders 44 Word before or 28 Sportscaster Rich after green

30 Cry of 46 Over and

exasperation under, e.g.

31 Bit of sports fan 47 Michael who

paraphernalia directed

32 Show for which “The Insider” Laurie Metcalf 49 Fire won three 51 Sensitive Emmys conversation

33 Ocean areas topic