The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 ___ TV

7 What an alley-oop

is, essentially

13 Business headache

15 Joint

16 Breeze for the

beach, maybe

18 “Never attribute to _ _ _ that which is adequately explained by stupidity” (Hanlon’s razor)

19 Not stiff at all

20 One arriving tomorrow, supposedly

22 Set piece?

23 Superficially clever

24 Put off

25 Sport whose name means “the gentle way”

26 “Tee” follower

27 The brachiocephalic trunk branches from it

28 Apple product?

29 “How about that!”

31 Innovation of the 1920s that’s still spoken of with wonder today

32 They beep when

tested

33 Tail, maybe

34 Aqua ___

35 “Miracle Workers”

airer

38 Verb that becomes its opposite when its first letter is changed to an “f” 39 Fashion label founded by Rihanna

40 Converse

41 Farm creature

42 Blender setting

43 Not fresh

44 John Deere

product

46 Condiment sometimes mixed with mayonnaise

48 Break from the

band

49 Snatched up, in

slang

50 Eve ___, playwright who created the activist movement V-day

51 Fleet

DOWN

1 “Amen to that!”

2 American, for

example

3 Pop-up destination

4 “___ is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn”: Gore Vidal

5 Dark side of the

moon?

6 Mimic

7 Heavy coat

8 Goal for some

runners

9 Fleur de _ _ _ (delicate crust on the surface of seawater)

10 “That makes

sense”

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11 Broke off

12 Earth-shaking

event

14 Enthusiastic sort

17 Common spots for

autographs

21 Concern for the

1%?

24 ___ far niente

(pleasant idleness)

25 Nick, Joe or Kevin

of pop

27 Uniform

28 Best, in an idiom

29 Remark from one waving a white flag

30 Ordered lineup

31 One clever enough to win every argument … but not clever enough not to

32 Deceive, especially to avoid responsibility for something

33 Word with electric

or criminal

35 Alan of “Growing

Pains”

36 Got clean, in a way

37 Fixed

39 Red state

40 Towering sight at a

site for a tower

42 Name added to a Brazilian dictionary in 2023 as an adjective meaning “incomparable”

43 Set off

45 Campaigner,

informally

47 What some smartphones run on