NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Perennial loser
8 Event featured in every Summer Olympics 14 Automatics lack them 16 Captured by cameras, maybe 17 Pasta with ribs 18 “Charmed” actress Milano 19 Touch
20 Washington insider, informally 21 Alongside
22 Singing ability, informally 24 Protective garment
26 S.&P. rating
27 Made objections
30 Pet
31 Pier group?
34 High tops?
35 Traditional holiday meals 36 Extraction targets 37 Nullifies
38 Greek vowel 39 Southwest language 41 Classes 45 Short-legged item of furniture 47 Montreal is part of it: Abbr. 50 Playwright who wrote
“Hell is full of musical amateurs” 51 Grammys competitor
52 Fully ready
54 Musical with the song “Beauty School Dropout” 55 Advance copy sent to a critic 56 Mailroom device
57 Brand sold by Sears
DOWN
1 Throw away
2 Whodunit story? 3 Managed to find 4 Chartered financial institutions 5 Do one’s part
6 Martial arts film hit 7 Number-picking game 8 Popular backache remedy 9 Blue arm
10 Moon of Pluto discovered in 2012 11 Pair in “Carmen”
12 Flight destination?
13 Beach grass that prevents erosion 15 Optimists’ discoveries 23 Fabric with diagonal lines 25 Rostand who wrote about Cyrano 28 Onetime owner of Skype 29 Opposite of spread out, as a paper
30 Alpha Centauri, for one
31 From now on
32 ___ regni
33 Large, shallow pan
34 Fink’s portrayer in “Barton Fink” 35 IDs tied to one digit 39 “Siddhartha” novelist 40 Web-footed creature
42 Vinyl enthusiast’s need 43 Breathless
44 Delivered an oath? 46 Turin-based automaker 48 Pawn
49 Stories that might not be true 53 Winter home, perhaps