New york times crossword
ACROSS
1 Lively dances in 2/4 time 7 Smallest country
in mainland Africa 13 Had a fit?
15 Indian or Mexican 16 Frazzled commuter’s comment 17 One getting on 18 How someone may be interrupted 20 Country club
figure
21 Language with
a trilled “r”
22 Verb in the first telegraph message 23 They’re encouraged on a ketogenic diet 24 Encouraging
words
25 Japanese stock
holder
26 Lead-in to comic 27 “Super” thing in
games, once 28 Force of
nature?
30 Bit of
belt-tightening 31 Longtime talk show host with a degree from Harvard
34 Ethnic group that makes up about 18% of the world’s population
37 Silly tricks 38 Ones on
Telemundo 39 Athlete known as
“The Black Pearl” 40 “What, will these hands ___ be clean?”: Lady Macbeth 41 Wee warbler 42 Luxurious Italian
house
43 Abbr. for those who don’t like parties 44 Bisector of the
Fertile Crescent 46 Road Runners’
race classification 48 Neighbor of
an Austrian
49 Part of an oven 50 Money in
the Bible
51 What’s left 52 Prepare to go
DOWN
1 Secretary of war to Taft, Roosevelt and Truman 2 First word of the Constitution after the preamble 3 Messes up 4 Wild things 5 Shop shapers 6 Any minute 7 Mean Miss of “The Wizard of Oz”
8 Second
9 Ed.’s inbox filler 10 Cameo 11 Resistance
to change
12 Kind of can 14 Overhyped event,
in slang
15 One who gets
bent out of shape 19 Connecticut
Yankee, e.g. 23 Pedal pushers 25 “Love ___” 26 Emulated
Rumpelstiltskin 28 Hunter College is
part of it, in brief 29 Summer coolers 30 Attorney general before Reno 31 Disbeliever’s question 32 Prelims
33 Is unobliged to 34 “My word!” 35 Chewy, in a way 36 Proximate 39 Dividing shrub 41 Toon with a
middle initial 42 Drudge
44 List
45 Smeltery refuse 47 Nowhere to be
found, for short