NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Aunties’ sisters 7 Gold medal 15 Fly 16 Prepare to take off, perhaps 17 Evers of civil rights 18 Quick seasonal greeting? 19 Ice cream gobbler’s woe 21 A.L. East team, on scoreboards 22 Ear-relevant 23 Old Norse work 24 Orange exterior 25 United entities before 1991:
Abbr. 26 “Get Smart” enemy agency 27 2008 Israeli political biography 28 Beater of a full boat in poker 30 Naturally bright 31 Develops 34 C6H6 35 Stilted-sounding “Consider it
done” 36 “The Godfather” enforcer who
“sleeps with the fishes” 37 “Cheers” alternative, in a letter 38 Providers of inside looks? 39 “Minnie the Moocher” feature 43 Archer of film 44 In a day, say 45 Solving aid 46 End of a line in England 47 Hit MTV series starting in 2009 50 Double grace period? 52 Start operating, datewise 53 Vronsky’s love 54 Stoolies, often 55 Like clams during winter 56 1993 rap hit in which Snoop Doggy Dogg popularized the term “bootylicious”
DOWN
1 Relatives of merengues 2 Heads off 3 Where trapeze artists connect 4 Ancient talisman with mathematical properties 5 ___ advantage 6 One bound to do work 7 Ball wear 8 Popping Prozacs, perhaps 9 Common statue setting 10 Ask 11 Legendary raptor 12 Figure skater Brasseur 13 Directed attention (on) 14 Runs over 20 Goes over 24 Source of false returns 26 Film critic Pauline 27 Magazine articles 29 E-tailing specifications 30 They can get choppy 31 “Ponyo” writer/director
Hayao ___ 32 In unison 33 Booms 34 Pickle 36 Pierce with lines 38 “West Side Story” Oscar
winner 40 Like the I.B.M. PC, often 41 Light show? 42 Minute 44 Four enter them, but only two
survive 47 Tennis star Novotna 48 Over there, to bards 49 Practice with gloves on 51 Once known as