The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 See the seasons pass

quickly?

11 Celle-là, across the

Pyrenees

14 Something that requires thinking inside the box?

15 What mustache-twirling might suggest 16 Dangerous places 17 Dress style

18 They’re often high,

but never dry

19 Zippo

20 Something Winniethe-Pooh lacks

21 Equal ___

22 Fire a second time 24 “I’m blushing!” 28 Sows and cows 29 Edited, as a film

30 ___ boom

31 Common middle name 33 Momentous

36 Labor of love? 37 Stones that diffract

light

38 ___ nova

39 Those who practice

energy medicine 41 Like many Egyptian

pyramids

42 Upper part of a cruise

ship

43 Help wanted sign 44 Pays (up)

45 About .4% of the weight of the human body

47 Z4 and i3

51 Lone Star State sch. 52 Give out cash freely 54 Store one inside another

55 “You can’t make me!” 56 Exhibits at an exhibition

57 Bottling up

DOWN

1 Twins, e.g.

2 “Gotcha”

3 Org. that holds many

conferences 4 Prohibition-era guns 5 N.T. book after Galatians

6 Amenity in many a

picnic box 7 Assemblage

8 Its scientific name is

Bufo bufo

9 Separated couple with

kids, say

10 Royal Navy letters 11 Proselytizer 12 Intuition

13 Group of stars

15 Field added to the I.R.S.’s Form 1040 in 2019

20 Controls, of a sort 21 Driving hazards 23 Discharge

24 It may get a good

licking

25 Recruiter

26 Audition

27 When repeated, a

reproof

28 Some farm births 30 2013 disaster film with

a cult following 32 “Holy moly!”

34 On ___ (without a firm

commitment) 35 Kanga’s kid 40 Crackerjack

41 1955 novel with the line “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight”

42 Part of a bathhouse 43 Pine, for one 46 One-named singer with the 2006 hit “Smack That”

47 Bread enricher

48 Spa job, informally 49 “Because of ___-Dixie” (2000 award-winning children’s book) 50 Slight problem 52 Karaoke need 53 Lead-in to light