EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ
ACROSS
1 Husky relatives
7 Like a virgin
13 Title setting for Shakespeare 14 Event with fiddling
15 Here and there
16 Riffraff
17 & 18 Desires
19 See 54-Across
20 Response to a burn or a pun
21 Jack ___
23 Girth
24 Dismissive turndown
25 They may hold the solution
27 Profit chaser?
28 The last pair you’ll ever wear? 31 Where the magician hides the rabbit 33 Embarrassments for news agencies 35 Attained
38 Who once described puritanism as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy”
39 Contents of une fontaine
41 Not just passes
43 Piled leaves
44 Despot exiled in 1979
45 Bobby who co-founded the
Black Panthers
47 Co-star of the “Thin Man” films 48 Idiots
49 Something the Netherlands has but
Belgium doesn’t?
51 Certain religious
proselytizer, informally
52 Pattern breaker
53 Faux gold
54 With 19-Across, spot for a tryst 55 Measure of military alertness DOWN
1 Place of eternal
happiness
2 Beat someone?
3 Cooking title
4 “Too bad!”
5 Jamaica’s St. ___ Bay
6 Bummed
7 Image on every carton of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream
8 Lead
9 “Ciao”
10 Pushover
11 Pull one’s hair out?
12 Eve who wrote “The Vagina Monologues” 14 “Balderdash!”
16 Recalls
18 Letter closing from one brother to another
21 Window: Ger.
22 Brought (out)
25 Brazilian city at the mouth
of the Amazon
26 Take root
29 Nick, e.g.
30 ___ Canals
32 “Thirty days hath September …,” e.g. 34 Tied the knot
35 Container that’s almost always red 36 About 71% of la Tierra
37 What “I” am, in a kid’s song
40 Invisible
42 Say nasty things about
44 How shy people may stand 46 Bibliography abbr.
48 Common ___
50 Word before and after “in”
51 Reddit V.I.P., for short