NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “Nice job, kid!” 8 Subjects in an intro chemistry class 13 ___ cat 14 Side parts? 16 Dead Sea docu

ments 17 Moved on all fours 19 Gradually increasing

rage 21 Leave amazed 22 Largest U.S. lake by volume after the five Great Lakes 25 “Piece of cake!” 26 Beat maker 27 Entirely 28 Cause of date night

stress 29 Zilch 30 Turkey hen’s mate 31 Writer Dinesen 32 Mineral in sheets 33 What recently hired

bosses are part of 37 Andy of cartoons 38 Tibetan spiritual

guru 39 Tiny energy unit 41 Black hues, in

Shakespeare 43 “Ditto” 44 Cop a ___ 45 Subdue 46 One of 100 in a “Winnie-the-Pooh” wood 47 Mislays 48 X 49 Planter’s bagful 51 Sculptor who

pioneered Dadaism 53 Middle of the week … or an appropriate title for this puzzle 57 Light 58 Playwright John who wrote “Look Back in Anger” 59 Pops 60 Canadian airline with a directional name

DOWN

1 Big jerk 2 Part of X-X-X 3 Roof coating 4 Israeli novelist of “A

Perfect Peace” 5 Ball V.I.P. 6 World capital half of which consists of forest 7 Campaign line of

2008 8 Charge 9 Dilly-dally 10 U.N. member between Norway and Pakistan alphabetically 11 Sound from a

13-Across 12 Modern energy

sources 15 Finalize 18 Software giveaway 20 Sound during a heist 22 Bicep image, briefly 23 Lots 24 When some kings and queens are crowned 26 They’re blown on for

good luck 28 Pronto 29 Onetime Coors

alcopop 31 Chronic pains? 32 Passing web fancy 34 Die down 35 “Password” or

“Pyramid” 36 Image in the

Timberland logo 40 ___ pedal 41 Set in stone, say 42 Religion founded in

19th-century Persia 43 Outdoor painting

scenes 44 Khmer Rouge leader 46 Line connected to a

pump? 47 Post-storm detritus 49 Placed 50 River through York 52 ___-Cat 54 Hoops legend with a statue in Philadelphia 55 Hydrocarbon suffix 56 “And still …”