NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Rugby rival of Harvard 7 It operates Hamburger U. 15 Like many offshore rescues 16 Visiting only a short time 17 1955 R&B hit for Bo Diddley 18 “Ri-i-ight” 19 Buff 20 17-Across, to the self-titled “Bo Diddley” 21 Took care of 22 Free of shampoo, say 24 Shut (up) 25 “Cleopatre” artist 26 Directory listings: Abbr. 27 A place antelope lope 29 Kittenish 30 Maugham’s title girl of Lambeth 31 Suspicion 32 Live 34 Uses without sharing, in slang 37 What there often is for improvement 38 Golfer nicknamed Long John 39 Interruption of service? 40 Model material 41 Translation material 42 Website used by a lot of artisans 43 Breeze (along) 44 “Huh … never mind then” 46 One of “the highest form of literature,” per Hitchcock 47 They’re “made by fools like me,” per Kilmer 49 Parades, with “out” 51 Rollback events 53 Start, in a way 54 Squeaker 55 Lift one’s spirits? 56 Subterranean scurrier 57 Played first
Down
1 Unhand or disarm? 2 Oscar winner before “Grand Hotel” 3 1974 National Book Award winner by Thomas Pynchon 4 Daughter and half sister of Oedipus 5 Shows a preference 6 Shared computer syst. 7 One who goes on to try to conquer the Universe? 8 Language akin to Yupik 9 ID 10 End of a lap 11 They may reduce sentences, for short 12 “And how!” 13 Four-time N.B.A. scoring champion in the 2010s 14 Vessel opener 20 Still matter? 23 Tough nut to crack 24 Court position 25 Prefix with village 27 Front-and-center section 28 Like fringe festival fare 30 It has a Marxist-Leninist ideology 33 Car payment? 34 Bêtes noires 35 Aid in studying a culture 36 Dump 38 Equipment for a rock band 40 Gewgaw 42 Coat 43 Design info 44 Davis of film 45 Really put one’s foot down 47 Berth place 48 Repute 50 Was reckless, in a way 52 K’ung Fu-___ 53 41-Across is a topic in it, briefly