The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Connections 4 Connections to the sternum 8 Not assured at all 13 “You can figure as well as I can” 16 Treasure 17 Cream song with the lyric “Dance floor is like the sea, / Ceiling is the sky” 18 Things that may be compressed 19 Excluded category in the Paleo diet 20 Little treasure 21 Now 22 Kind of wave 23 Wasabi go-with in sushi meals 24 List heading 25 People who are in them are out, in brief 26 Shavit with the 2013 best seller “My Promised Land” 27 Where Spike Lee earned his M.F.A. 30 Little: Fr. 31 Not identifying with one’s assigned sex 34 1851 Sojourner Truth speech 35 Online addresses, in part 36 “Ur hilarious!” 37 Bit of evasion 38 Still 39 Two or three sets, say 42 Where the Taj Mahotsav festival is held 44 Either director of “Inside Llewyn Davis” 46 Part of MSG 47 Fit 49 Info in a Yelp listing: Abbr. 50 Either half of a 1973 “duel” 51 Lacked options 52 Ask 54 Tribe whose name means “long tail” 55 Dessert so-called for its portions of flour, butter, eggs and sugar 56 Purchase at a golf pro shop 57 Purchases at a golf pro shop 58 Flushed
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1 “Don’t you doubt me!” 2 “You cheated!” 3 Round containers? 4 Bet (on) 5 Subj. of many antiglobalization protests 6 Threat of a strike, in labor negotiations 7 Lead 8 Birdbrained 9 Birdbrain 10 Typical “S.N.L.” start 11 Something you can control the volume with? 12 “Me?” follower 14 “___, boy!” 15 Terse and unadorned, as writing 23 Part of MGM’s motto 26 “Babalú” bandleader 28 Ones ranking above knaves 29 Not realized 31 Fashion mogul Gunn 32 ___ Marcos, Tex. 33 Some “CSI” figs. 34 App with over 200 free stations 35 Place to play with toys 36 Things that might be batted at a ball 39 Approach 40 Something not many people laugh at 41 Blew it 43 Floral symbol of patience 45 “… but I could be wrong” 46 Comedian Maron 48 Superlatively 50 Contends (for) 53 Clément Marot poem “A ___ Damoyselle Malade”