NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Quarterback spikes?
7 Opening
12 Grammy-winning 2018 hit for
Childish Gambino
14 “Huh!”
15 Part of the plan
16 Lacking any preparation
17 Try (for)
18 The 700s, in the Dewey Decimal
System
19 Its flag features a pine and the
North Star
20 Booker in Washington
21 Traditional masked drama
22 What antifeminism is a direct expression of, per Andrea Dworkin
24 Challenge, symbolically
26 Sharp quality
28 “Happy ___!”
29 Kind of shower
31 Its pods are poisonous to eat 32 Quick getaways, maybe
34 Star clusters?
36 Classic muscle car
37 Close ones, informally
40 Fits (inside)
41 “___ bien”
42 Suffix with concert
43 ___ II, eponymous gymnastics move featuring two backflips and a triple twist
44 Venus, to Cupid
45 Background for someone who’s
good with numbers
48 Marvel producer
49 Is super into, in modern parlance 50 Indulge
DOWN
1 Game of checkers?
2 Cuba libre ingredient
3 Por ___ (therefore: Sp.)
4 Carriers are mobile ones
5 Poet who wrote “I grow old … I grow old … / I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled”
6 Saw
7 Family matter, maybe
8 Get to
9 Lead singer of “Yellow Submarine” 10 Really clean
11 Caramel relative
12 “Ow!”
13 Fabled sources of fortune
14 Place for a frog
15 Gut reaction, say
19 Member of the Y?
20 Pop star Lauper
22 Sacred peak in the “Iliad” and “Aeneid,”
for short
23 Catches
25 Gullible sorts
27 Family member
29 A+ effort
30 Word with block or chain
32 Binary
33 Touch the sky
35 Flared, as sleeves
37 New York Giants legend Phil
38 The Greenlandic language is a form of it 39 Economic capital of Iraq
41 Packed in?
43 Hidden inclusions, for short 44 One-named Japanese-born actor with a
star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 46 Janis with the 1975 hit “At Seventeen” 47 Lead-in to now