NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 From the beginning, on scores

7 F-14 fighter jet

13 Stumper?

14 Relief pitcher of old

15 Creep

16 Shell pieces

17 Service that’s out of this world? 19 Coast Guard rank: Abbr.

20 One may be packed for a trip to the

mountains

21 Silver, for one

22 Fly catcher

23 Tiniest amount

25 Text massage

26 Cooler

27 Gained

28 Sharp, as criticism

29 “Army” leader of old

32 “Mamma Mia!” and “Jersey Boys,” for

two

35 Spotify’s most-streamed artist of the

2010s

36 In the cards

37 Start of an exchange

38 ___ loss

39 Setting for many a season of “Survivor” 40 Mottled

41 Really sinks in

43 Dealer’s request

44 Bit of A/V equipment

45 Org. that awards the Energy Star label 46 Parenting term popularized by Amy

Chua in a 2011 nonfiction best seller 50 Model company

52 Last month

53 One sometimes working on a shoulder 54 Erasmus of Formia, by another name 55 Hot

56 Kind of bear

DOWN

1 Simple pencil-and-paper game

2 Met demand, maybe

3 Big-pocketed character on an old show

4 Swear 5 Combines

6 City whose name means “eagle” in Russian 7 Attorney’s favorite dessert? 8 Common name among Norwegian royals

9 Concierge handout 10 Regional specialty of southern Ohio 11 Highly skilled 12 Letter-shaped opening 14 Speaker of the #1 quote on A.F.I.’S list of the 100 greatest movie quotes 16 Flight simulator?

18 What one might be represented by 22 Chi-town exchange

23 Christian bracelet letters

24 Time of day

25 Prefix with friendly

26 Red stamp word

28 Help to hold up, say

30 Nastase of tennis

31 Begun: Abbr.

33 Stretches (out)

34 Spot

40 Like dates that lack a heart

41 Spinoff groups

42 Split up

43 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Conrad 44 Very, musically

46 Evidence that’s hard to refute 47 Strong-smelling secretion 48 Anarchist/political activist Goldman 49 Swindle

51 Unit in chemistry: Abbr.