NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Fratty group 9 “Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the ___ of human beings”: Helen Keller 15 Absolutely

creamed 16 Dictate

17 What some investments and trained dogs do 18 Top stories

19 Like El Alto, the highest large city (population > 100,000) in the world

20 Kindling

21 One after

another?

22 Italian city that’s home to the Villa d’Este

23 Nuts

26 More authentic 27 Target, e.g. 29 Shoes that are also water hazards

34 Big heart? 35 Brusque

36 Author of the 2011 political memoir “My Father at 100”

38 Dream

39 “When I was a kid

…”

46 Less of a mess 47 Middle-of-the-___ 48 Anna who played Scheherazade in 1963’s “Scheherazade” 49 Spent completely 51 Polar expedition

transport

52 Exalt

53 Remove a burden

from

54 Delivered

55 Like the apples in apple pie, typically

56 They serve a

function

DOWN

1 Cutting

2 Actor with the #1 film performance in Premiere magazine’s list of “100 Greatest Performances of All Time”

3 Hardly the silent

type

4 Slobber

5 Split

6 Word with will or

wage

7 Colored part 8 Second-most populous Swiss canton, after Zurich

9 Start of Kansas’

state motto 10 Most small

minded

11 Trigger

12 France’s flag,

e.g.

13 Trouble for

comedians 14 Emphatic

agreement 24 Salon, e.g.,

informally 25 Canine’s

woe? 28 Something in a

pool

29 Gets started 30 Sitcom set in

Lanford, Ill. 31 Out but with

caveats 32 Pressing 33 Court,

in a way 37 Made sparkling,

say

40 Silver 41 Photoshop

command 42 Salt

43 Main slot on an

old PC 44 Codger 45 They’re taken while waiting

49 It may be slipped to a doctor 50 Old-fashioned

theaters