NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Ring up?
5 Playing at a party, maybe
10 U.S. soccer legend ___ Howard
13 Devil ___ the tailors (pub game)
15 Kept going
16 Co-founder of Artists Against Fracking 17 Stage offering
18 Like the 16th-century ruler Cuauhtémoc 19 Moniker for a noted Boston skyscraper,
with “the”
20 Specs for a modiste
22 Readathon supporters, for short 23 Relief
24 ___ nerve (biceps neighbor)
25 Cans
26 Inside dope
28 Where “Home” might be found 30 Stuffed
31 Utter
32 “Wow, that’s wild!”
34 Exemption from usual consequences 36 Some O.K. fighters
40 Relatives of cornets
41 The “BA” of the Boston museum MOBA 42 Splash against
43 Rotated, in a way, to a pilot
45 Smallish hail size
46 Motorcycle pioneers ___ and Effie
Hotchkiss
47 Most times
49 Operation that yields the remainder from dividing two numbers, in math lingo
50 Entropy
51 Word in the name of many candy offshoots
52 It includes ://
53 13-Across, in French
54 Opening in a leaf
55 ___-ops
56 Porous soil
57 Joie de vivre
DOWN
1 Tough, uncompromising sort 2 Kafka’s unfinished first novel,
published posthumously in 1927 3 “Five stars from me”
4 Charge
5 Household locale where the Coriolis effect is supposedly observed
6 Cold War-era group that included
Louis Armstrong
7 Dating profile info
8 Vetoes
9 Vitamin Shoppe competitor 10 “Betcha can’t beat my score!” 11 Accessible
12 Salon stock
14 It’s a blessing
21 Having designs
22 Window you might want to close
quickly
25 “Creature From the Black Lagoon”
co-star
27 Some fresh starts
29 Home of the world’s longest road
tunnel (15 miles): Abbr. 31 “Regardless …”
33 Mount ___, highest peak in the
Philippines
34 Ice cream shop posting
35 With dispatch
37 Sports Illustrated’s 2019
Sportsperson of the Year
38 Early trials, informally 39 Patronizes, in a way
40 Stop responding 41 Singer/songwriter Folds 44 Smartens (up)
47 “This can’t be good” 48 Ostentatious display
50 One of 250,000 in 1937’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”